Definitions for oscillatory

oscillatory os·cil·la·to·ry

Spelling: [os-uh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈɒs ə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

Oscillatory is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 861 anagrams from letters in oscillatory (acilloorsty).

Definitions for oscillatory

adjective

  1. characterized by or involving oscillation.

Origin of oscillatory

1730-40; New Latin oscillātōrius, equivalent to Latin oscillā(re) to swing (see oscillate) + -tōrius -tory1

Examples for oscillatory

He lifted the crucible, shook it for a moment with an oscillatory motion, then replaced it on the fire.

The mode of composition of the sections on cycloidal (oscillatory) motion gives some idea of Thomson's method of working.

Thomson suggested that double, triple and quadruple flashes of lightning might be successive flashes of an oscillatory discharge.

The oscillatory motion was imparted to this by one tentacle of the handling-machine.

Radiant energy is characterized as an oscillatory or wave-like process.

The oscillatory displacement of the front of the church did not at most seem to cover more than a hand-breadth, but it was enough.

oscillatory, like a to and fro movement, the swaying branches of trees, or the swinging of a pendulum.

This oscillatory movement has not the fiery precipitation of that of the Cantharides; it is calmer and as it were rhythmical.

A lightning flash has been shown by photographs and by other means to be oscillatory.

That oscillatory motion by which the waves rock a ship from side to side.

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