Pendulate

Quick meaning: Pendulate is a verb meaning To swing like a pendulum.

Meaning

To swing like a pendulum.

More Meanings

1. To vacillate between states, especially states of arousal and of relaxation.
2. (biology) pendulous.

Example Sentences

Here the rachis is bent at the point of its origin, and thereby it produces pendulate inflorescence.

What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction.

Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again .

There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb .

Word Forms

• pendulates
• pendulating
• pendulated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oscillate, swing, dangle, fluctuate, undulate, basculate.

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