Home › Words › D › diadromdiadrom/ˈdaɪədɹəm/diadrom means A complete course or vibration, as of a pendulum.diadrom is pronounced /ˈdaɪədɹəm/.EtymologyFrom Ancient Greek διάδρομος (diádromos, “a running through”).nounA complete course or vibration, as of a pendulum.e.g.“an inch one-tenth of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot one-third of a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of forty-five degrees, are each equal to one second of time” — 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.diadromy 60% match — The state of being diadromous vs diadrom →didromy 59% match — The quality of being didromic; double torsion. vs diadrom →diapasonal 59% match — Of or relating to a diapason. vs diadrom →diapason 57% match — The musical octave. vs diadrom →pendular 57% match — Characteristic of the motion of a pendulum. vs diadrom →pendulumlike 56% match — Resembling or characteristic of a pendulum; having a back-and-forth motion. vs diadrom →didromic 55% match — Doubly twisted, like the awns in Danthonia, Stipa, etc. vs diadrom →diapase 55% match — diapason vs diadrom →