oscillating
Collocations
5ADJ.
disciplinary, kind, problematic, unpredictable
VERB + OSCILLATING
finds, standing, wave
OSCILLATING + NOUN
body, marginality, pattern, ups
PREP.
between, from, in
ADV.
exceedingly, forever, slowly
Definitions
adj
Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going.
But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before.
In general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating.
Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values.
Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means.
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Synonyms
adjective — having periodic vibrations
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Idioms & Phrases
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6But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a
WiktionaryIn general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating.
WiktionaryWhen examining work on the history of sociology, however, one finds a more oscillating pattern: disciplinary marginality, followed by greater centrality, followed by a return to the margins.
WiktionaryWind and weather conditions on the Great Lakes may create a seiche, an oscillating wave which can be several feet high.
Tatoeba · #6679534A seiche is a standing wave oscillating in a body of water.
Tatoeba · #6708731His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.
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