pendular

The thing that frustrates me with all of this is the pendular nature of educational change.

Such pendular swings are probably inevitable when the candidates are unpopular, unknown or both.

The seats are attached to a pendular system which allows the acceleration to be perpendicular to the back of the passengers.

Procedure: a peculiar combination of pendular dowsing and gemology.

The first Talgo tilting series were the "pendular" ones from 400 series onwards.

In her work a pendular movement can be perceived that comes and goes from abstraction to figuration, as if from one extreme to the other.

This is accomplished by an apparatus that moves the animals' cages backwards and forwards in a pendular motion.

Pendular water is the moisture clinging to particles, such as soil particles or sand, because of surface tension.

Pendular motion causes the tether vibration amplitude to build up under the action of electromagnetic interaction.

A punkah fan moves slowly in a pendular manner with a rather large blade and is nowadays electrically powered.

Acquired pendular nystagmus is seen in a variety of conditions with the two most frequent being multiple sclerosis and oculopalatal tremor.

Later on it is used on Talgo pendular trains between Madrid and Cartagena.

Morrow saw how Uvarov's hand continued its endless, pendular tremble, and his mouth opened and closed with soft, obscene sounds.

While tilting trains had been in development in other countries for some years, and even seen service, so-called 'pendular tilt' had not been particularly satisfactory.

Initially, they were delivered in the same livery as the TALGO pendular, i.e. white and blue.

Another writer, responding to a general question about changes in his discipline, described a long-term cyclical or pendular motion which may suggest parallels in other subjects:

A deficit in this fixation system results in ocular instability that mainly leads to acquired pendular nystagmus and saccadic intrusions.

Between September 1995 to April 1996, 352-004 is used on the Talgo pendular Madrid - Cartagena replacing the damaged 354-008.

Sintra's problems include major pendular movements to Lisbon, with terrible traffic during rush hour on the IC19 road to Lisbon.

There is some evidence of benefit in acquired pendular nystagmus and infantile nystagmus but not in periodic alternating nystagmus.

In 1980 352-004 is altered in order to tow the new Talgo pendular trains; working between Zaragoza and Madrid from June 1980.

Sensory ataxia also lacks the associated features of cerebellar ataxia such as pendular tendon reflexes, scanning dysarthria, nystagmus and broken pursuit eye movements.

The inner meaning of his architecture derives from these pendular alternatives, from the joyful refusal to select one of them, reducing the range of his vital tentacles."

Yet he could not stand by, even though he had schooled himself to do so, tried to quell the pendular motion of self-interest and duty that had plagued him throughout the morning.

Academics made a pendular swing from the silly notion that scholarship existed wholly apart from politics to the equally silly position that everything we did had the very gravest political significance.