Usually means: Hanging, suspended, dangling; awaiting resolution.
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  1. pendent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pendent: Merriam-Webster
  3. pendent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pendent, pendent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pendent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pendent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pendent, pendent: Wordnik
  8. pendent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pendent: Wiktionary
  10. pendent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pendent (pendant): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pendent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pendent: Dictionary.com
  14. pendent (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pendent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pendent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pendent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Pendent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pendent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pendent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pendent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. pendent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pendent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pendent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. pendent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pendent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pendent)

adjective:  Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
adjective:  Pending (in various senses).
adjective:  (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
adjective:  (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
adjective:  (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
adjective:  (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
noun:  Alternative spelling of pendant [(architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.]

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