Oscillation










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Oscillation \Os`cil*la"tion\, n. [L. oscillatio a swinging.]
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1. The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and
forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
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2. Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
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His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme
points of the oscillation were not very remote.
--Macaulay.
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Axis of oscillation, Center of oscillation. See under
Axis, and Center.
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oscillation
n 1: the process of oscillating between states

2: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
[syn: oscillation, vibration]

3: a single complete execution of a periodically repeated
phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" [syn:
cycle, oscillation]
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oscillation [ɔsileiʃən]
Schwingung

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oscillation

habozás
ingadozás
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lengés
oszcillálás
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vacillálás


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oscillation [ɔsileiʃən]
geschommel; schommeling

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oscillation

Schwingung f
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "oscillation":
alternation, beat, cyclicalness, equivocation, fluctuation,
intermittence, intermittency, meter, pendulation, pendulum motion,
periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, pulsation,
reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence,
return, rhythm, seasonality, seesawing, shifting, shilly-shally,
shilly-shallying, shuffling, teeter-tottering, teetering,
tottering, undulation, vacillation, variation, vicissitude,
wavering, wobbling



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