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a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity — such as is seen in some mechanical clocksor:
a change that is roughly proportional and in the opposite direction of a prior change — such as a change in opinion
- The clock uses a pendulum to keep time.
pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity
- Now the pendulum has swung the other direction and voters are demanding...
- The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop.George Orwell -- 1984
- The measured movement of the pendulum disturbed them not at all.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- With every blow Kuba swung back and forth like the pendulum of a grandfather clock.Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang;Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death
- Increase the swing of the pendulum, increase, increase, come up and bear against that point of furthest balance— increase—increase— "Heave!"William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- The hoist swung like a pendulum above the city.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, as he listened, with mathematical regularity.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- The silence is heavy between us, everything past and remembered and forgotten and wanted swinging there like a pendulum.Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall
- He stepped towards the bathroom, the yellow pendulum of lamp beside his knees.Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
- She dangles them before me like a pendulum.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- It had no effect upon the cries; no pendulum could be more regular.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- In Silvester the Second a famous magician ascended the papal throne, although he was notorious for having invented the pendulum clock.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Let there be consummation, and superfluity be finished from the next drop of the pendulum onward!Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Her leg was swinging like a pendulum, and the troll's breath was breaking over her face in rancid waves.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- The hard part for them back then was inventing a clock that would work on a boat (pendulums don't work on boats).Andy Weir -- The Martian
- Pendulum rides are a little like the swing sets you might remember from your childhood.Annenberg Learner -- Amusement Park Physics
- His little hands swiveled at the wrists, his fingers snapped, and his head swung side to side like a pendulum.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
pendulum = change to the opposite direction
pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity — such as is seen in some mechanical clocks
pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity — such as is seen in some mechanical clocks
or:
a change that is roughly proportional and in the opposite direction of a prior change — such as a change in opinion
or:
a change that is roughly proportional and in the opposite direction of a prior change — such as a change in opinion
pendulum = a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity (such as is seen in some mechanical clocks)
pendulum = something heavy that swings back and forth
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