oscillation

oscillate | American Dictionary

oscillate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈɑs·əˌleɪt/
to move repeatedly from side to side or up and down between two points, or to vary between two states or amounts, or feelings or opinions:
She oscillates between cooperation and hostility.

oscillation

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌɑs·əˈleɪ·ʃən/
Mealtimes strongly influence this daily oscillation in blood sugar, or glucose, concentrations.

oscillate | Business English

oscillate
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈɒsɪleɪt/us
to move repeatedly from one position to another:
oscillate between sth and sthThe stock has spent most of the past five years oscillating between $3 and $5.
The FTSE 100 index closed up 2.4%, having oscillated wildly throughout the week.

oscillation

noun[ C or U ]
a long period of oscillation between profit and loss

Examples of oscillate

oscillate
I n the following chaptern solutions are obtained for oscillating delta wings, low aspect ratio rectangular wings and slender non-planar bodies.
In other windows, solutions characterized by both oscillating and soliton properties ('oscillitons') exist.
However, an oscillating two-stream instability - a purely growing instability - occur s near the critical surface.
Their downstream motion being decelerated recognizably, they stay longer in the vicinity of the oscillating airfoil.
However, the most dramatic effect comes from oscillating the observer's position very rapidly.
To resonate with the oscillating electric field in the interaction region, it must bear the same or be near the frequency of the electric field.
During further follow-up of either treatment schedule, protein levels oscillated around values similar to those in the control group at corresponding days.
Electrons oscillating in the ultraintense laser field become relativistic.
The molecule oscillates in the excited-state torsional minimum.
Control of oscillating glycolysis of yeast by stochastic, periodic and steady source of substrate : a model and experimental study.
In this case the particle not only oscillates in the azimuthal direction, but starts moving in the longitudinal direction, along the z-axis.
The index oscillates within the stable range initially, which marks the existence of a central elliptic point near the origin.
The longitudinal component of the velocity ux clearly reveals oscillating behavior superimposed on a soliton-like structure.
Moreover, the entire layer of electrons within the target oscillates in the laser field, which very rapidly heats the electrons.
Then, almost on a daily basis, they oscillated between the old and new homesteads.
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