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Definition of Pendular
1. a. Pendulous.
Definition of Pendular
1. Adjective. Characteristic of the motion of a pendulum ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pendular
1. pendulum [adj] - See also: pendulum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendular
Literary usage of Pendular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology by John Broadus Watson (1914)
"(a) White light vision.— (6) Response to monochromatic light.—2. Audition.—Grouping
of problems.— (1) Response to pendular vibrations. ..."
2. Sound: A Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the by Alfred Marshall Mayer (1879)
"We now will show how, from this curve, we may get again the pendular motions
which traced it. EXPERIMENT 11.—Get a postal-card and cut in it a narrow slit ..."
3. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1914)
"When a unifilar magnet is subjected to vertical displacements whose period
approaches half the natural period of pendular vibration of the magnet, ..."
4. Elementary Mechanics: For Engineering Students by Francis M. Hartmann (1910)
"... CHAPTER IX pendular MOTION ANY body free to vibrate about a fixed axis under
the action of gravity is called a pendulum. The period of a pendulum, ..."
5. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"The simple or pendular form of wave is given, for instance, by tuning forks. ...
A compound (or non-pendular or non-sinusoidal) wave may have a very great ..."
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