pendulum

How To Use pendulum In A Sentence

• Both watches feature a bright red pendulum second hand. Times, Sunday Times
• This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
• Besides tarot reading there are also runes, pendulums, Numerology, palm reading, tealeaf reading, scrying, and dowsing.
• The pendulum which comes down first, opens a communication with a vacuum, and the resulting suction is used, by a mechanical device, to produce a sudden expansion of the gas that is being examined. Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 - Presentation Speech
• As so often in education, the pendulum has swung back to the other extreme and testing is popular again.
• NCIS was perturbed at the end of last season, and the pendulum is slowly returning to status quo. Prone and supine : Bev Vincent
• For a classical pendulum, that is when the bob is at rest and at the bottom.
• Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
• The strappado, also known as the pendulum, was one of the easiest and, therefore, one of the most common torture techniques.
• John did this by waving a small quartz crystal pendulum over the resistor, which was either passing current, or not - depending on the position of a simple flip-flop relay inside the circuit box.