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pendents

pendents is the plural of pendent.

Meaning of pendent

Adjective

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)

  1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
    • Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. Pending (in various senses).
  3. 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.
  4. Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
    • Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry
  5. Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
  6. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

Questions about pendents

What is pendents the plural of?
Pendents is the plural of pendent.

Words near pendents in the dictionary

  1. pendent jurisdiction
  2. pendente lite
  3. pendentive
  4. pendentives
  5. pendently
  6. pendents
  7. Pender
  8. Pender County
  9. Pendergast
  10. Pendergastism
  11. Pendergasts

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