Oscillation
[,ɒsɪ'leɪʃn] or [,ɑsɪ'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean.
(noun.) the process of oscillating between states.
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Definition
(n.) The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
(n.) Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
Editor: Trudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vibration, swinging, nutation.
Typist: Remington
Examples
- Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Signor Marconi used the vertical conductors and the Hertz-oscillation principle, and his system is described in his United States patent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If link C D be drawn half way up, the pin E becomes the center of the oscillation of the link, and the valve rod is not moved at all. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The principal applications of wireless telegraphy so far have been at sea, where the absence of intervening obstacles gives a free path to the electrical oscillations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Our continents seem to have been formed by a preponderance, during many oscillations of level, of the force of elevation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The antenna has electrical capacity, and when it is connected with the other apparatus needful to produce the oscillations it disturbs the earth’s magnetic field. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The receiving station must have the means to intercept the waves, and then transform them again into electrical oscillations that shall correspond to those sent out from the transmitting station. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But what struck him as singular was that the oscillations all seemed to be made in the same time. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In 1890 Professor Eduard Branly found that loose metallic filings became good conductors of electricity when there were electric oscillations at hand. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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