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oscillate

[os-uh-leyt]

verb (used without object)

oscillated, oscillating 
  1. to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.

  2. to vary or vacillate between differing beliefs, opinions, conditions, etc..

    He oscillates regularly between elation and despair.

    Synonyms: ,
  3. Physics.Ģżto have, produce, or generate oscillations.

  4. Mathematics.Ģż(of a function, sequence, etc.) to tend to no limit, including infinity.

    The sequence 0, 1, 0, 1, … oscillates.



verb (used with object)

oscillated, oscillating 
  1. to cause to move to and fro; vibrate.

oscillate

/ ĖˆÉ’²õɪˌ±ō±šÉŖ³Ł /

verb

  1. (intr) to move or swing from side to side regularly

  2. (intr) to waver between opinions, courses of action, etc

  3. physics to undergo or produce or cause to undergo or produce oscillation

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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • interoscillate verb
  • unoscillating adjective
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of oscillate1

1720–30; < Latin “Dzõ³¦¾±±ō±ōÄå³Ł³Ü²õ (past participle of “Dzõ³¦¾±±ō±ōÄå°ł±š ā€œto swing, ride on a swingā€), equivalent to oscill(um) ā€œa swingā€ + -Äå³Ł³Ü²õ -ate 1
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of oscillate1

C18: from Latin “Dzõ³¦¾±±ō±ōÄå°ł±š to swing, from oscillum a swing
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Synonym Study

See swing 1.
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Example Sentences

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I couldn’t center the clay on my wheel, causing it to wobble uncontrollably as I also struggled to control the wheel’s speed, oscillating between going too slow and too fast.

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Clinging to the chassis of an airplane with the wind plastering his hair to his forehead and oscillating his gums like bulldog in a convertible, he is, in fact, exceedingly flapped.

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They are extremely timely, heavy films, but still wildly compelling, oscillating from three different kinds of institutional violence to two distinct films about the power of music and the arts.

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But Tung is a centrist by San Francisco standards, and the city’s political pendulum, which has long oscillated between left and far left, has clearly swung her direction.

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Puccini’s heroine here is overwhelmed by oscillating sine waves.

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