oscillation
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7.2
- noun
- /ˌɑːsɪˈleɪʃən/
- Specialized
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oscilación
- The EEGs showed oscillation between wakefulness and REM sleep, in a pattern he had never seen.
- solar oscillations
- stellar oscillations
- oscillation frequency
Just where to draw the line between vibration and oscillation is somewhat unclear.
- Just where to draw the line between vibration and oscillation is somewhat unclear.
- The next biggest impact on climate is oscillations in the Earth's orbit.
- And oscillations play an important part in brain function.
- So the every person every day is experiencing these oscillations, these peaks and troughs in blood glucose.
- But for some reason after Vegas, my weight has gone through some violent oscillations with the average increasing a little bit.
- But your, your example, the Milankovic cycles that cause the oscillation between ice ages and interglacials is well chosen.
- It's got just got buttons you can do like oscillation, you can do pulses.
- But, you know, that's not a periodic oscillation that I would call solar quakes.
- LIGO can only detect the ringing and merger and oscillation and gravity ripples of small black holes.
- The universal Common to both is the abstraction of a pure inward oscillation, or of pure self thinking.
Examples
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Even though model B showed less overall drag, it experienced more lateral oscillation during testing than model A.
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And oscillations play an important part in brain function.
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And it's just a number for each oscillation, but it's time dependent.
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So it's a natural oscillation in the air sea state of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Some of the most accurate data on solar oscillations appear in Figure 8.
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The damping rate of this oscillation increased strongly at higher temperatures.
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So the every person every day is experiencing these oscillations, these peaks and troughs in blood glucose.
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In contrast to these beneficial cycles, there are the harmful oscillations between boredom and frustration.
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The purpose of the integral function is to prevent undesirable oscillations in the filtered signal and to ensure perfect adaptation.
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The pendulum's oscillation created a steady rhythm that mesmerized the audience.
Synonyms
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3.2
A quick movement back and forth that makes something shake
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6.2
A rising and falling movement like waves on water
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5.9
A regular rising and falling in strength, like sound or light
Movement that repeats at regular times, with each cycle taking the same amount of time
Motion that repeats at regular times, like a swinging pendulum
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.6
A repeated change in the temperature of surface water in the Pacific Ocean near the equator that affects weather worldwide
How Oscillatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word oscillation comes from the Latin verb oscillare, which means 'to swing'. So, when something moves regularly between two states, like optimism and pessimism, that back-and-forth is an oscillation.