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Another word for oscillate

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Verb

  1. To move rhythmically back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above

    See also:

    repetition

    move

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Another word for oscillate

Verb

  1. To swing

    See also:

    waver

    wave

    swing

  2. To fluctuate

    See also:

    swing

    change

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Sentence Examples

  • The rods are caused to oscillate slowly by an engine, one rising while the other is falling.

  • The two opposing theories express at bottom, in the phraseology of their own time, the radical divergence of pantheism and individualism - the two extremes between which philosophy seems pendulum-wise to oscillate, and which may be said still to await their perfect reconciliation.

  • Linkwoyk in GeneralThe pieces which are connected by linkwork, if they rotate or oscillate, are usually called cranks, beams and levers.

  • Those who work with living forms of which it is possible to obtain a large number of specimens, and those who make revisions of the provisional species of palaeontologists, are slowly coming to some such conception as that a species is the abstract central point around which a group of variations oscillate, and that the peripheral oscillations of one species may even overlap those of an allied species.

  • Adjust the length of the plumb-line until it and the body oscillate together in unison.

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