Meaning of pendulate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To swing like a pendulum.
2. To vacillate between states, especially states of arousal and of relaxation.

Examples

“There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb .”

“Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again .”

“Lungarella and Metta (in Lungarella, M. and Metta, G. 2003) studies the role of changes in the qcquisition of primary motor abilities: learning to pendulate (to swing like a pendulum) or bounce. In the first case the study was conducted with a small-sized humanoid robot that learned to pendulate.”

“What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction.”

“If it stops feeling okay, pendulate to thinking about (or doing) something that feels nurturing for you: it it's available to you, get up and move around, look at a favorite picture or painting, talk to a friend, or pet your dog or cat.”

“When we can pendulate between between those vagal states, shift between frozen to connected to withdrawing to integrated, this is the ANS capacity at its best, "mov[ing] between sympathetic and parasympathetic modes in an optimal balance".”

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