pendent

From Latin pendens, pendentis, p.pr. of pendere to hang, to be suspended. Compare pendant. From Anglo-Norman pendaunt, Old French pendant.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛndənt/

pendent (comparative more pendent, superlative most pendent)

This arch is stable as it stands, but all the voussoirs are pendent and removal of any one of them would cause the structure to collapse

Pendent structure in architecture: Binondo Church Dome with its pendentives

1. 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.

2. pending in various senses.
3. (architecture, of a structure) 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. (grammar, of a sentence) incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
5. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

pendent (plural pendents)

1. Alternative spelling of pendant

From Latin pendēns.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pənˈdent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pənˈden/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /penˈdent/

pendent (masculine and feminine plural pendents)

1. pending, unresolved; waiting on
2. sloped, sloping, inclined

pendent m (plural pendents)

1. slope, incline

• “pendent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pendent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pendent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pendent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

pendent

1. third-person plural present indicative of pendre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of pendre

pendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pendō
2. third-person plural present active indicative of pendeō