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Another word for oscillate

oscillate Synonyms

oscillate

v.

To swing
palpitate, vibrate, sway; see swing 1, wave 3, waver.
To fluctuate
be unsteady, waver, vacillate; see change 4. See syn. study at swing.

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Another word for oscillate

verb

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

sway, swing. See move, repetition

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The rods are caused to oscillate slowly by an engine, one rising while the other is falling.
Adjust the length of the plumb-line until it and the body oscillate together in unison.
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.
Adjust the length of the plumb-line until it and the body oscillate together in unison.

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