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How to pronounce oscillate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hover, vacillate, vibrate
Type of hesitate, waffle, waver
Has types shillyshally
Derivation oscillation


He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement.
Type Words
Synonyms vibrate
Type of sway, swing
Has types hunt, librate
Derivation oscillation, oscillatory

Examples of oscillate

oscillate
The solar wind's magnetic fields oscillate on the journey from the sun to Earth.
From the sciencedaily.com
The graphic above shows how a few different colors of light oscillate over time.
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As the telescope approached this position, it began to oscillate back and forth.
From the dispatch.com
For example, the animations shown here oscillate roughly once every two seconds.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The average maturity of this portfolio will oscillate between 7.5 and 12.5 years.
From the forbes.com
D.C. mayoral elections oscillate between populist and business-oriented politics.
From the washingtonpost.com
By late 2008, Shahzad seemed to oscillate between contentment and frustration.
From the heraldtribune.com
The waves make the charge of the atoms underneath the quantum microphon oscillate.
From the sciencedaily.com
As long as the system has no energy loss, the mass will continue to oscillate.
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More examples
  • Hover: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"
  • Move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating"
  • (oscillating) oscillatory: having periodic vibrations
  • (oscillation) the process of oscillating between states
  • (oscillation) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
  • (oscillation) cycle: a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons"
  • Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples include a swinging pendulum and AC power. ...
  • (Oscillation (differential equation)) In mathematics, in the field of ordinary differential equations, a non trivial solution to an ordinary differential equation
  • In mathematics, the oscillation of a function or a sequence is a number that quantifies how much a sequence or function varies between its extreme values as it approaches infinity or a point...