PENDULAR


Meaning of PENDULAR in English

-lə(r) adjective

Etymology: French pendulaire, from pendule pendulum (from Latin pendulus ) + -aire -ar

: being or resembling the movement of a pendulum : swinging or undulating back and forth

public opinion has moved in violent pendular swings between optimism and pessimism — New Republic

pendular vibrations produce the sine wave — C.S.Myers

the pendular movements of the isolated rat intestine — Gilles Papineau-Couture

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.