Definitions for oscillate

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oscillate os·cil·late

Spelling: [os-uh-leyt]

IPA: /ˈɒs əˌleɪt/

Oscillate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 625 anagrams from letters in oscillate (aceillost).

Definitions for oscillate

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move to and fro; vibrate.

verb (used without object)

1. to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
2. to vary or vacillate between differing beliefs, opinions, conditions, etc.:
3. Physics. to have, produce, or generate oscillations.
4. Mathematics. (of a function, sequence, etc.) to tend to no limit, including infinity:

Origin of oscillate

1720-30; Latin oscillātus (past participle of oscillāre “to swing, ride on a swing”), equivalent to oscill(um) “a swing” + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for oscillate

Anyhow, I know I must oscillate between north and south, so oscillate I do.

The weight will oscillate at a uniform rate, or so many times a minute.

Americans oscillate in their opinions of women involved in affairs, seeing them either as villains or victims.

It does not oscillate (or pump), though extremely sensitive.

But if you release the brake so that the entire mechanism is free to oscillate lengthwise of the ship, all is changed.

Sheldon cried, for the other was beginning to vibrate and oscillate before his eyes.

The feelings do not so much advance like a river, as oscillate like a pendulum.

I expected to see it grip the wretched Bob, when it began to oscillate from side to side.

That is to say, the body must oscillate from side to side, or waddle.

Thus, while spinning on its vertical axis the body of the top is able to oscillate, pendulum-like, lengthwise of the ship.