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Pendent vs Pendulous - What's the difference?

pendent | pendulous | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between pendent and pendulous

is that pendent is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended while pendulous is hanging as if from a support.

As a noun pendent

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

pendent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
    • The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders
  • * 1986 , Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
    • An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
  • pending in various senses.
  • either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
  • incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
  • (label) Projecting over something; overhanging.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
    • ----

    pendulous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • hanging as if from a support
  • indecisive or hesitant
  • (biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping