Definitions for pendulum

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pendulum pen·du·lum

Spelling: [pen-juh-luh m, pen-duh

IPA: /ˈpɛn dʒə ləm, ˈpɛn də-/

Pendulum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in pendulum (delmnpuu).

Definitions for pendulum

noun

1. a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
2. Horology. a swinging lever, weighted at the lower end, for regulating the speed of a clock mechanism.
3. something that tends to move from one position, condition, etc., to the opposite extreme and then back again:

Origin of pendulum

1650-60; New Latin, noun use of neuter of Latin pendulus pendulous

Examples for pendulum

The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients.

Let them be what they might, the pendulum should wag, and have a fair chance of doing its best.

It had no effect upon the cries; no pendulum could be more regular.

The pendulum swing between moods and tone, however, became a staple of the shoot.

I need hardly say that I never set the pendulum swinging again.

I think the pendulum has swung back on that because of books like The Blood Telegram.

Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.

But gerrymandering has cold cocked the pendulum weight, stopped it dead.

But we cannot set up a pendulum to swing at the pole of the earth.

Swinging went the pendulum in the window, and the wind roared in the chimney.