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Meanings of oscillation in English

Portuguese
vibração
Catalan
oscil·lació
Spanish
vibración

(Physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean.

vibração
Catalan
cicle
Spanish
ciclo

A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.

cicle
Usage of oscillation in English
1
Their ideas are incidents in their perpetual oscillation between apathy and passion.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
2
A certain oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion.
Les Misérables
3
This oscillation in the Pacific Ocean occurs every two to seven years.
Wired
4
Such was the oscillation of grandeur and power between the two cities.
Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
5
Syrinx was aware of a curious secondary oscillation in the distortion field.
The Reality Dysfunction
6
An oscillation rippled along the tokamak chamber, tearing the plasma stream apart.
The Neutronium Alchemist
7
DAMPING.-Thedegree to which the energy of an electric oscillation is reduced.
The Radio Amateur's Hand Book / A Complete, Authentic and Inform...
8
VARIOCOUPLER.- Atuningdevice for varying the inductance of the receiving oscillation circuits.
The Radio Amateur's Hand Book / A Complete, Authentic and Inform...
9
VARIOMETER.- Atuningdevice for varying the inductance of the receiving oscillation currents.
The Radio Amateur's Hand Book / A Complete, Authentic and Inform...
10
The sound doesn't come from any oscillation - but from something else.
The thing from another world
11
The chain at every oscillation made a grinding sound, with hideous regularity.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
12
Latency between stimulus and onset of gamma oscillation was increased with cooling.
Pubmed
13
Therefore, the gas exchange features of PB are explicable by primary ventilatory oscillation.
Pubmed
14
The response to deep inspiration was measured by forced oscillation technique.
Pubmed
15
We find that B-cyclin oscillation is not essential for control of phase-specific transcription.
Pubmed
16
Thus the signal is very unlikely to be an ongoing task-independent vascular oscillation.
Pubmed
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Translations for oscillation
Oscillation through the time
Oscillation across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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