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nonfluctuating

nonfluctuating

6.3
Staying the same over time
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈflʌkʧueɪtɪŋ/
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  • Our financial analysis showed that the company's profits were nonfluctuating over the last five years.

Examples

  • Twenty subjects with nonfluctuating tinnitus were each tested over two sessions.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Using our automated testing technique, individuals with essentially nonfluctuating tinnitus can match their tinnitus loudness very reliably to pure tones across the audible frequency range (3).

    Academic text (2001)

  • The temperature in the laboratory remained nonfluctuating throughout the entire experiment.

  • The patient's blood pressure was nonfluctuating, indicating a stable health condition.

Synonyms

unvarying
vsnonfluctuating
1 4.8

Not changing over time and always the same

focuses on remaining constant over time rather than strict identicalness
unfluctuating
vsnonfluctuating
7.7

Staying steady and not changing in value or level

is the general term for constant state across contexts not only value
equable
vsnonfluctuating
7.4

Not changing much and staying steady in weather or temperature

means total constancy rather than mostly steady with minor changes
nondynamic
vsnonfluctuating
6.4

Stays the same and does not change

describes constancy over time rather than absence of movement or activity

Antonyms

fluctuating
6.1

Changing up and down often in a way you cannot guess

How Stable

stable
473 2.3
nonfluctuating
6.3
changeable
8 3.5
variable
  • Specialized
140 4.2

Surface Forms

nonfluctuating positive

Morphology

nonfluctuating = fluctuating (transparent) = non + fluctuate + ing

The meaning is directly derived from adding the negative prefix 'non-' to 'fluctuating', so learners who know 'fluctuate'/'fluctuating' can infer 'not changing'.

Etymology

The word nonfluctuating starts with non- meaning 'not' and the fluctu- part comes from a word meaning 'flow' or 'wave', the same idea in the familiar word flux. So a nonfluctuating thing does not 'flow' up and down and 'stays the same' over time.