Definitions for oscillation

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oscillation os·cil·la·tion

Spelling: [os-uh-ley-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌɒs əˈleɪ ʃən/

Oscillation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 721 anagrams from letters in oscillation (aciillnoost).

Definitions for oscillation

noun

1. an act or instance of oscillating.
2. a single swing or movement in one direction of an oscillating body.
3. fluctuation between beliefs, opinions, conditions, etc.
4. Physics. an effect expressible as a quantity that repeatedly and regularly fluctuates above and below some mean value, as the pressure of a sound wave or the voltage of an alternating current. a single fluctuation between maximum and minimum values in such an effect.
5. Mathematics. the difference between the least upper bound and the greatest lower bound of the functional values of a function in a given interval. Also called saltus. the limit of the oscillation in an interval containing a given point, as the length of the interval approaches zero.

Origin of oscillation

1650-60; Latin oscillātiōn- (stem of oscillātiō) a swinging, equivalent to oscillāt(us) (see oscillate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for oscillation

The oscillation is very great and the sound nearly approaches a ring.

The oscillation of the fan is imparted to everything around.

Still, what astonished him was, that it went straight on without any oscillation.

All social life is necessarily an oscillation between these two motives.

Don't run the wires of oscillation circuits too close together.

The oscillation of the engine now began to be greatly in evidence.

I refer to the oscillation of sea-level, of which so many proofs are forthcoming.

Baryon oscillation is basically sound waves in the early Universe.

The extent of these movements of the pen measures the grade of the oscillation.

The time for anxiety and hesitation is over, for doubts and oscillation.