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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
oscillation
    n 1: the process of oscillating between states
    2: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
       [syn: oscillation, vibration]
    3: a single complete execution of a periodically repeated
       phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" [syn:
       cycle, oscillation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Oscillation \Os`cil*la"tion\, n. [L. oscillatio a swinging.]
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   1. The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and
      forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
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   2. Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
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            His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme
            points of the oscillation were not very remote.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   Axis of oscillation, Center of oscillation. See under
      Axis, and Center.
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Thesaurus Results for oscillation:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alternation, beat, cyclicalness, equivocation, fluctuation, intermittence, intermittency, meter, pendulation, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, pulsation, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhythm, seasonality, seesawing, shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, undulation, vacillation, variation, vicissitude, wavering, wobbling
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