Pendulum
noun
A weight hung from a fixed point so that it swings freely back and forth.
The pendulum in the clock was swinging side to side.
Often appears as...
- swinging pendulum
- pendulum clock
noun
A weight hung from a fixed point so that it swings freely back and forth.
The pendulum in the clock was swinging side to side.
Often appears as...
- swinging pendulum
- pendulum clock
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Motion
Understand pendulum as representing a specific type of movement found in clocks or experiments.
The science teacher demonstrated how a pendulum moves.
Pro Tip 2/3Timekeeper
Pendulums are key in clocks to keep time; they help measure seconds accurately.
Before digital clocks, a pendulum was crucial for keeping time.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Pendulum can be a metaphor for changes in opinions or situations, swinging from one extreme to another.
The political pendulum has swung to the left in recent years.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Motion
Understand pendulum as representing a specific type of movement found in clocks or experiments.
The science teacher demonstrated how a pendulum moves.
Pro Tip 2/3Timekeeper
Pendulums are key in clocks to keep time; they help measure seconds accurately.
Before digital clocks, a pendulum was crucial for keeping time.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Pendulum can be a metaphor for changes in opinions or situations, swinging from one extreme to another.
The political pendulum has swung to the left in recent years.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Motion
Understand pendulum as representing a specific type of movement found in clocks or experiments.
The science teacher demonstrated how a pendulum moves.
Pro Tip 2/3Timekeeper
Pendulums are key in clocks to keep time; they help measure seconds accurately.
Before digital clocks, a pendulum was crucial for keeping time.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Pendulum can be a metaphor for changes in opinions or situations, swinging from one extreme to another.
The political pendulum has swung to the left in recent years.
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Animation basics: The...
a pendulum. Animation is a time-based art form. It may incorporate the aesthetic elements of other graphic arts, like illustration or painting, but what sets animation apart is that, here, what you see is less important that what you don't see. An object's superficial appearance
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Why the buildings of the...
And the answer is that architecture works on the principle of a pendulum. On the one side is innovation, and architects are constantly pushing, pushing for new technologies, new typologies, new solutions for the way that we live today. And we push and we push and we push
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How does your smartphone...
No matter how skilled a clockmaker may be, every pendulum, wind-up mechanism and quartz crystal resonates at a slightly different frequency. However, every cesium 133 atom in the universe oscillates at the same exact frequency. So thanks to the atomic clock,
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Tom Shannon: The painter...
The sun has a tremendous field that extends way beyond the planets and the Earth's magnetic field protects us from the sun. So there's this huge invisible shape structures that magnetism takes in the universe. But with the pendulum,
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Why don't perpetual...
None of them work. The moving parts that make one side of the wheel heavier also shift its center of mass downward below the axle. With a low center of mass, the wheel just swings back and forth like a pendulum, then stops.
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How we experience time...
have a new life in the reopening of MOMA. And it's a piece that the tool itself is the sculpture. So the pendulum, as it swings, is used as a tool to create the piece. So each of the piles of objects
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Tracking Giant Galapagos...
tortoises follow that sort of pendulum of greenness as it moves up and down the island but these seasonal migrations have been affected by the arrival of humans puerto ayora the largest town in
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Esther Perel: The...
And the pandemic gripped the world. And then the pendulum that swings between freedom and security has snapped off its hinge. There is a constant, extreme emphasis on safety
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Quake-Proof Bridge PIPE...
steel towers can move with the earth to absorb the shock and inside each tower lies a second layer protection 20 huge pendulums
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Quake-Proof Bridge PIPE...
steel towers can move with the earth to absorb the shock and inside each tower lies a second layer protection 20 huge pendulums
Video examples
Animation basics: The...
a pendulum. Animation is a time-based art form. It may incorporate the aesthetic elements of other graphic arts, like illustration or painting, but what sets animation apart is that, here, what you see is less important that what you don't see. An object's superficial appearance
Video examples
Why the buildings of the...
And the answer is that architecture works on the principle of a pendulum. On the one side is innovation, and architects are constantly pushing, pushing for new technologies, new typologies, new solutions for the way that we live today. And we push and we push and we push
Video examples
How does your smartphone...
No matter how skilled a clockmaker may be, every pendulum, wind-up mechanism and quartz crystal resonates at a slightly different frequency. However, every cesium 133 atom in the universe oscillates at the same exact frequency. So thanks to the atomic clock,
Video examples
Tom Shannon: The painter...
The sun has a tremendous field that extends way beyond the planets and the Earth's magnetic field protects us from the sun. So there's this huge invisible shape structures that magnetism takes in the universe. But with the pendulum,
Video examples
Why don't perpetual...
None of them work. The moving parts that make one side of the wheel heavier also shift its center of mass downward below the axle. With a low center of mass, the wheel just swings back and forth like a pendulum, then stops.
Video examples
How we experience time...
have a new life in the reopening of MOMA. And it's a piece that the tool itself is the sculpture. So the pendulum, as it swings, is used as a tool to create the piece. So each of the piles of objects
Video examples
Tracking Giant Galapagos...
tortoises follow that sort of pendulum of greenness as it moves up and down the island but these seasonal migrations have been affected by the arrival of humans puerto ayora the largest town in
Video examples
Esther Perel: The...
And the pandemic gripped the world. And then the pendulum that swings between freedom and security has snapped off its hinge. There is a constant, extreme emphasis on safety
Video examples
Quake-Proof Bridge PIPE...
steel towers can move with the earth to absorb the shock and inside each tower lies a second layer protection 20 huge pendulums
Video examples
Quake-Proof Bridge PIPE...
steel towers can move with the earth to absorb the shock and inside each tower lies a second layer protection 20 huge pendulums
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Quote examples
Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.
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Jon Stewart
American Entertainer
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
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Clint Eastwood
American Actor
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
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Karen Katz
American Author
I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Martha MacCallum
American Journalist
Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.
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Ed Gillespie
American Politician
Politics swings like a pendulum.
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Ana Navarro
American Critic
Politics is a pendulum.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.
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Jon Stewart
American Entertainer
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
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Clint Eastwood
American Actor
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
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Karen Katz
American Author
I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Martha MacCallum
American Journalist
Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.
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Ed Gillespie
American Politician
Politics swings like a pendulum.
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Ana Navarro
American Critic
Politics is a pendulum.
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