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| Main Entry: |
oscillation
 [os-uh-ley-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swinging |
| Synonyms: | quivering, swaying, vibration, waving |
| Concept: | [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro] Oscillation. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse., alternation; coming and going; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down., fluctuation; vacillation (irresolution)., wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope.
-verbs
oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag., fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate [more]; teeter [U.S.]., brandish, shake, flourish.
-adjectives
oscillating; oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory, libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile; pendulous.
-adverbs
to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.
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| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throbbing |
| Synonyms: | cadence, cadency, flow, flutter, measure, meter, oscillation, palpitation, pound, pressure, pulsation, pulse, quake, quiver, rhyme, rhythm, ripple, shake, surge, swell, swing, throb, thump, tick, undulation, vibration |
Example Sentences
- Furthermore, it is prone to a subtly disturbing oscillation known to audio engineers as wow.
- If no spot-changing oscillation were happening it should have seen only one or two.
- The maser oscillation persists as long as the hydrogen is fed into the system.
| Main Entry: | flicker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spark, glimmer |
| Synonyms: | beam, flare, flash, gleam, oscillation, quivering, ray, scintillation, twinkle, vibration |
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
| Synonyms: | abundance, beat, constancy, density, frequentness, iteration, number, oscillation, periodicity, persistence, prevalence, pulsation, recurrence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm |
| Notes: | a single to-and-fro movement of an air particle is called a cycle and the number of cycles that occur in a second is known as the frequency of a sound |
| Antonyms: | infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | motion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, action |
| Synonyms: | act, advance, agitation, ambulation, body English, change, changing, direction, drift, dynamics, flow, fluctuation, flux, full swing, gesticulation, gesture, high sign, inclination, kinetics, locomotion, mobility, motility, move, oscillation, passage, passing, progress, sign, signal, stir, stirring, stream, sway, sweep, swing, tendency, travel, wave, wavering |
| Antonyms: | immobility, repose, rest, stagnation, stiffness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | pulse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm, beat |
| Synonyms: | beating, oscillation, pulsation, stroke, throb, throbbing, vibration |
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