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oscillation

[os-uh-ley-shuhn] / ˌɒs əˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
swinging
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Prof. Arthur McDonald, who received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of solar neutrino oscillation, commented on the publication:

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

This process, called oscillation, implies that neutrinos must have mass.

From Science Daily Jan. 12, 2026

These particles can transform from one type to another through a phenomenon known as oscillation.

From Science Daily Dec. 18, 2025

Physicists don't currently have enough data to disentangle two effects on the oscillation: mass ordering and a property called Charge Parity violation.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2024

And the subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension, which broke out in violence only on the occasion of the Civil War.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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