Meaning of OSCILLATION
| Pronunciation: | | `âsu'leyshun
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- [n] a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"
- [n] (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
- [n] the process of oscillating between states
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| | Synonyms: | | cycle, vibration |
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| | See Also: | | action, activity, beat, cardiac cycle, Carnot cycle, Carnot's ideal cycle, libration, menstrual cycle, natural action, natural process, pass, periodic event, recurrent event, resonance, ripple, sympathetic vibration, transient, undulation, wave | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Os`cil*la"tion\, n. [L. oscillatio a swinging.]
1. The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and
forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
2. Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme
points of the oscillation were not very remote.
--Macaulay.
{Axis of oscillation}, {Center of oscillation}. See under
{Axis}, and {Center}.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, teetering, teeter-tottering, tottering, undulation, vacillation, variation, vicissitude, wavering, wobbling |
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