oscillation

oscillation
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Fluctuation
Nouns — oscillation; vibration, libration, nutation, undulation; pulsation, pulse; fluctuation, vacillation, wavering; wave, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance; alternation, reciprocation; coming and going; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and downs; trill, tremolo. See regularity, changeableness.
Verbs — oscillate; vibrate, librate, reciprocate, alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; flutter, pulsate, beat; wag; tick; play; fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel [to and fro], quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move or bob up and down; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; waver, teeter, seesaw, vacillate; take turns, change off.
Adjectives — oscillating, oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory, libratory; vibratory, pendulous; wavering, fluctuating; every other; irresolute.
Adverbs — to and fro, up and down, back and forth, backward and forward, seesaw, zigzag, in and out, from side to side, from pillar to post.
Quotations — Is it a fact, or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
Antonyms, see stability.
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(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Swinging]
Syn. waving, swaying, quivering; see vibration .
2. [Fluctuation]
Syn. hesitancy, misgiving, faltering; see doubt 2 , uncertainty 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. moving back and forth swinging, alternating, vibrating, vibration, pulsating, pulsation, librating.
2. indecision vacillation, wavering, hemming and hawing, changing one s mind, equivocating, blowing hot and cold, shilly-shallying, fickleness, fence-sitting.
ANT.: 2. decisiveness, settling, resolving

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