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View definitions for oscillation

oscillation

noun as in swinging

Strongest match

Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in fluctuation

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Example Sentences

One of those observations is BOSS: the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.

Baryon oscillation is basically sound waves in the early Universe.

The last time we detected a plasma oscillation was nine years ago.

Seeing the luggage piled “Olympus high,” so as to occasion an alarming oscillation.

The oscillation without raised and depressed the level of the waters within, with the regularity of respiration.

Thus there is a perpetual oscillation in spiritual truths, and in spiritual doctrines of any significance, even when not truths.

He went off into a happy mist of quantum mechanics, oscillation theory, and periodic functions of a complex variable.

The brake is watched carefully, lest irregularity of lubrication should cause oscillation of speed with the changing resistance.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to oscillation, such as: vibration, quivering, waving, and swaying.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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