Oscillating

Synonyms for "oscillating" (77 found)

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Closest matches (16)

Verb(3 words)

alternating fluctuating hesitate

ceaseless constant continual fluctuant fluctuating fluctuational flutter harmonic incessant libratory

Noun(3 words)

flapping flickering lurching

Strong matches (23)

nutational oscillatory pendular pendulating pendulous perennial periodic perpetual rapid regular repeated resonantshilly shallyingshilly-shally

Adjective(2 words)

oscillatory pendulum-swinging

Noun(5 words)

porpoising quivering rocking seesawing shaking

Verb(2 words)

pulsating resonate

Related words (38)

shilly-shallying staccato steady stuttering sustained unbroken unceasing unchanging unintermittent uninterrupted unremitting unstopped unvarying vacillating vacillatory vibratile vibrating vibratory wavering wobbly

Verb(10 words)

sway swing swinging vacillate vacillated varying vibrate vibrating waggled weigh

Noun(7 words)

swayingswinging motiontremblingvibrating stringwarbling wobbler wobbling

Adjective(1 words)

vacillant

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

8 entries

cognitiondecision makingfluctuation kinematics motion move variation vibration

More specific

14 entries

Hartley oscillatorLC oscillatorRC oscillatorWien bridge oscillatorbeam vibrationcyclical fluctuationflip floppendulum motionpulsating motionrotational oscillationseasonal variationswinging motionvacillationvibrating motion

Collocations

11 entries

oscillate betweenoscillate continuouslyoscillate irregularlyoscillate rapidlyoscillating behavioroscillating currentoscillating frequencyoscillating motionoscillating signaloscillating systemoscillation damping

Inflections

4 entries

more oscillatingmost oscillatingoscillated oscillates

Derivations

7 entries

oscillate oscillated oscillates oscillatingly oscillation oscillator oscillatory

similar

2 entries

periodic periodical

Sample sentences

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Wind and weather conditions on the Great Lakes may create a seiche, an oscillating wave which can be several feet high.

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A seiche is a standing wave oscillating in a body of water.

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His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.

Source: tatoeba (7416495)

Life is unpredictable, problematic, oscillating between ups and downs.

Source: tatoeba (10644536)

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