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Meanings of oscillate in English

Portuguese
vibrar
Spanish
dudar
Catalan
vibrar

Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action.

        vibrar
        Usage of oscillate in English
        1
        Will the mass oscillate faster if the initial velocity is moving down?
        Wired
        2
        We oscillate between the society of Saint-Vincent de Paul and the International.
        The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
        3
        George Henslow speaks of their extreme restlessness; they oscillate, rotate, and change.
        Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
        4
        What if I oscillate the wall at the frequency for mass 2?
        Wired
        5
        There is nothing I want more than to, uh, oscillate with you.
        Second glance
        6
        The stronger the force, the less the time it will take to oscillate.
        Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
        7
        So elaborate a system has a great tendency to oscillate and become unstable.
        The End of Man?
        8
        Then the banners began to oscillate, and soon a regular motion set in.
        The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3
        9
        In the air, balloons incessantly oscillate upon the fluid strata of different densities.
        The Moon-Voyage
        10
        But the numbers say that if they oscillate, they have mass.
        Wired
        11
        Each one of those balls, if displaced, will oscillate at a particular frequency.
        Wired
        12
        It was intact but the impact had made it oscillate wildly.
        The Guardian
        13
        Her heightened teenage emotions oscillate wildly from occasional joy to more frequent despair.
        The Irish Times
        14
        But loopy belief propagation can also converge to the wrong answers or oscillate forever.
        The Master Algorithm
        15
        The discovery that neutrinos oscillate between forms has huge consequences.
        The new yorker
        16
        This way you could make the fan 'oscillate' from one end to the other.
        Wired
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        Translations for oscillate
        Oscillate through the time
        Oscillate across language varieties
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