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Oscillating

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going.

    "But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before."

  2. 2
    Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values.

    "Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having periodic vibrations wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of oscillate form-of, gerund, participle, present

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