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Перевод: pendulum

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маятник ; неустойчивый предмет; неустойчивый человек

Тезаурус:

1. He read several papers before the society and his published works include observations on the laws of electricity, the height to which rockets can be fired and the influence which two pendulum clocks, in close proximity, were seen to have on each other.
2. That evening, before dinner, we had sat together in the Clerecia, watching the glib little gilded pendulum of the antique wall-clock wagging away.
3. Sadly indeed, the pendulum seems to have swung, as it does swing on the education clock, so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching, which had been so wisely and effectively urged, is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus.
4. The pendulum which seems to have swung very far in one direction will either swing back or over in a circle and the extreme position will not be maintained.
5. The latest round of interest rate rises has postponed for another six months the earliest date the pendulum can be expected to swing back.
6. The pendulum consists of a weight on the end of a piece of string, thread or chain usually a few inches long.
7. As anyone knows who has missed a bus, there comes a speed at which the compound pendulum begins to fail as a good system for locomotion.
8. The trace from a chap 20 yards up the beach had snapped in half as full power was applied to a pendulum cast.
9. In fact I think there is overwhelming evidence to show that at least some of the time a ouija board can be a device (like a crystal ball or a pendulum) for releasing the forces of the subconscious in an irresponsible way, which can cause untold damage to the human personality."
10. He was already on the way to establishing his role as a leading spokesman for the "sixties generation" - a generation that was forced to handle change as never before, as Bernard Levin commented, in " The Pendulum Years ":
11. You hold the end of the string and the muscles in the hand cause the "bob" to gyrate or swing in pendulum fashion.
12. For more than a century physiologists have remarked upon the similarity between a walking human and an inverted pendulum.
13. BOOK REVIEW / The fading of Eco: a cautionary tale: "Foucault's Pendulum" - Umberto Eco: Tr.