conical pendulum

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noun Horology.

a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.

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Words nearby conical pendulum

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How to use conical pendulum in a sentence

But gerrymandering has cold cocked the pendulum weight, stopped it dead.
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The pendulum swing between moods and tone, however, became a staple of the shoot.
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I had seen pictures before of the Temple, with its conical towers set on top of a mountain.
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I think the pendulum has swung back on that because of books like The Blood Telegram.
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The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients.
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By what word is the relation between “pendulum” and “a smile and tear” described?
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When in the city they wore a rough felt conical hat and dark blue cotton robe.
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The sword clattered from his hand and rolled, with a pendulum-like movement, to the feet of Garnache.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
The head and thorax are of the colour of the wings, their sides and the conical abdomen being rather lighter.
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Jack was painting squares of alternate black and white on a buoy of a conical shape.
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