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形容詞

pendular (comparative more pendular, superlative most pendular)

1. Characteristic of the motion of a pendulum.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 113:

     Arabic meter—so Arabic tradition claims—sprang from the rhythm of bodily motions, such as the pendular beating of the blacksmith and the trot of the horse and the camel.

   • 1998, Kamila Shamsie, In the City by the Sea, Bloomsbury (2004), page 103:

     The ice rose off the counter, attached to the salted string. Hasan’s eyes opened wide. Aba flicked a finger against the ice. String and ice started swaying back and forth. ‘For Salman, time is pendular,’ Aba repeated, pointing to the ice.

2. pendulous.