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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. to have, produce, or generate oscillations.
  4. Mathematics. (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

/ ˈɒ²õɪˌ±ô±ðɪ³Ù /

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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of oscillate1

1720–30; < Latin ´Ç²õ³¦¾±±ô±ôÄå³Ù³Ü²õ (past participle of ´Ç²õ³¦¾±±ô±ôÄå°ù±ð “to swing, ride on a swingâ€), equivalent to oscill(um) “a swing†+ -Äå³Ù³Ü²õ -ate 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of oscillate1

C18: from Latin ´Ç²õ³¦¾±±ô±ôÄå°ù±ð to swing, from oscillum a swing
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Synonym Study

See swing 1.
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Example Sentences

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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“I’m oscillating between thoughtful, anxious, and desperate,†she said.

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Since her death, Moynehan’s grief has oscillated among sorrow, fear and anger.

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