Usually means: Weight swings by fixed point.
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  1. pendulum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pendulum: Merriam-Webster
  3. pendulum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pendulum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pendulum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pendulum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pendulum, pendulum: Wordnik
  8. pendulum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pendulum: Wiktionary
  10. pendulum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pendulum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pendulum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pendulum: Dictionary.com
  14. pendulum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pendulum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Pendulum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pendulum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pendulum: Rhymezone
  20. Pendulum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pendulum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pendulum: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pendulum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pendulum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pendulum: Encyclopedia

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  2. pendulum: Medical dictionary

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  3. Pendulum: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pendulum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Pendulum: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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  1. pendulum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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(Note: See penduluming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (clocks, mechanics) A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
noun:  (by extension) The tendency of a situation to oscillate (between two extremes).
noun:  A lamp, etc. suspended from a ceiling.
noun:  A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain.

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