Oscillation definition and meaning - English - Collins Dictionary

oscillation in American English · 1. an act or instance of oscillating · 2. a single swing or movement in one direction of an oscillating body · 3. fluctuation ... 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EnglishGrammar CollinsApps WordFrequency oscillationinAmericanEnglish (ˌɑsəˈleɪʃən ) noun1.  theactofoscillating 2.  fluctuation;instability;variation 3. Physicsa.  repeatedvariationinthevalueofsomephysicalquantity,aspositionorvoltage b.  asingleinstanceorcycleofsuchavariation Webster’sNewWorldCollegeDictionary,4thEdition.Copyright©2010by HoughtonMifflinHarcourt.Allrightsreserved. WordoriginLoscillatio WordFrequency oscillationinAmericanEnglish (ˌɑsəˈleiʃən) noun1. anactorinstanceofoscillating 2. asingleswingormovementinonedirectionofanoscillatingbody 3. fluctuationbetweenbeliefs,opinions,conditions,etc 4. Physicsa. aneffectexpressibleasaquantitythatrepeatedlyandregularlyfluctuatesaboveandbelowsomemeanvalue,asthepressureofasoundwaveorthevoltageofanalternatingcurrent b. asinglefluctuationbetweenmaximumandminimumvaluesinsuchaneffect 5. Matha. thedifferencebetweentheleastupperboundandthegreatestlowerboundofthefunctionalvaluesofafunctioninagiveninterval b. Alsocalled:saltus thelimitoftheoscillationinanintervalcontainingagivenpoint,asthelengthoftheintervalapproacheszero Mostmaterial©2005,1997,1991byPenguinRandomHouseLLC.Modifiedentries©2019 byPenguinRandomHouseLLCandHarperCollinsPublishersLtd Wordorigin[1650–60;‹Loscillātiōn-(s.ofoscillātiō)aswinging,equiv.tooscillāt(us)(seeoscillate)+-iōn--ion] Synonymsof'oscillation' fluctuation,swing,variation,instability wavering,swing,shift,swaying MoreSynonymsofoscillation Examplesof'oscillation'inasentence oscillation ExamplesentencesfromtheCollinsCorpus TheseexampleshavebeenautomaticallyselectedandmaycontainsensitivecontentthatdoesnotreflecttheopinionsorpoliciesofCollins,oritsparentcompanyHarperCollins. Wewelcomefeedback:reportanexamplesentencetotheCollinsteam.Readmore… Anasymmetricorificecanbeaddedtoasurgetankofahydropowerplanttodampen themassoscillation.RomanGabl,MaurizioRighetti2018,'DesigncriteriaforatypeofasymmetricorificeinasurgetankusingCFD',EngineeringApplicationsofComputationalFluidMechanicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2018.1443837.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Bothmethodsshowanontrivialdependenceofthedeconvolutionqualityontheoscillation amplitude.JoachimWelker,EstherIllek,FranzJ.Giessibl2012,'Analysisofforce-deconvolutionmethodsinfrequency-modulationatomicforcemicroscopy', BeilsteinJournalofNanotechnologyhttps://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.3.27.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Finally,employingthepresentmethod,westudythenonlinearoscillationoftheviscoelastic movingbeltunderparametricexcitations.S.P.Chen,Y.H.Qian2014,'NormalFormforHigh-DimensionalNonlinearSystemandItsApplicationtoaViscoelastic MovingBelt',AbstractandAppliedAnalysishttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/879564.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Incontrast,neitherlinearnorexponentialmodelsfittheoscillationofharborseal strandingsandbycatchoverthestudyperiod.DavidW.Johnston,JaimeFrungillo,AinsleySmith,KatieMoore,BrianSharp,Janelle Schuh,AndrewJ.Read2015,'TrendsinStrandingandBy-CatchRatesofGrayandHarborSealsalongtheNortheastern CoastoftheUnitedStates:EvidenceofDivergenceintheAbundanceofTwoSympatric PhocidSpecies?',PLOSONE10.1371/journal.pone.0131660.RetrievedfromPLOSCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Inthispaper,werestudythisoscillationviaquantumfieldtheoryapproach.M.M.Ettefaghi,Z.AskaripourRavari2015,'Neutralcurrentneutrinooscillationviaquantumfieldtheoryapproach',PhysicsLettersBhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315003858.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Observationsarereportedinisothermaltorsionaloscillationtestsonmeltsofisotactic polypropylenereinforcedwithcarbonnanofibres.A.D.Drozdov,A.Al-Mulla,D.A.Drozdov,R.K.Gupta2013,'Linearviscoelasticityandthermaldegradationofhybridnanocomposites:isotactic polypropylenereinforcedwithcarbonnanofibres',Maǧallaẗal-abḥāṯal-handasiyyaẗhttp://pubcouncil.kuniv.edu.kw/jer/files/18Jun20130230593_Lenear.pdf.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Theresultingthermalnoiseexhibitstelegraph-likebehaviour,withrandomswitching betweendifferentoscillationregimesobservableatroomtemperature.A.V.Bondarenko,E.Holmgren,B.C.Koop,T.Descamps,B.A.Ivanov,V.Korenivski2017,'Stochasticdynamicsofstrongly-boundmagneticvortexpairs',AIPAdvanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4974066.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Thesimulationresultsprovideareasonableexplanationforthesustainedoscillation phenomenoncommonlyseeninoperationofhydroelectricgeneratingset.JunyiLi,QijuanChen2014,'NonlinearDynamicalAnalysisofHydraulicTurbineGoverningSystemswithNonelastic WaterHammerEffect',JournalofAppliedMathematicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/412578.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) Thereareahugenumberoftrainingaids,reportingcadence,verticaloscillation andgroundcontacttimeforrunning.Times,SundayTimes(2015) Wefoundthatthebodystrainmeterandtheverticalpendulumtiltmeterhavebetter observingresultsforspheroidaloscillation.YanZhang,FangjieMeng2018,'DetectionofEarth'sfreeoscillationexcitedbytheJapanMw9.0Earthquakeusing differenttiltmeterandstrainmeter',GeodesyandGeodynamicshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674984717301945.RetrievedfromDOAJCCBY4.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode) ExamplesentencesfromCollinsdictionaries aslightoscillationinworldtemperature hisoscillationbetweenscepticismandcredulity Trendsof oscillation Viewusagefor: AllYears Last10years Last50years Last100years Last300years Browsealphabetically oscillation oscillatingengine oscillatinguniverse oscillatinguniversetheory oscillation oscillational oscillative oscillator AllENGLISHwordsthatbeginwith'O' Relatedtermsof oscillation parasiticoscillation Source DefinitionofoscillationfromtheCollinsEnglishDictionary ReadabouttheteamofauthorsbehindCollinsDictionaries. 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