Not a great deal of energy is required for keeping a free moving pendulum in a state of oscillation.
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Oscillation
//ˌɑː.səˈleɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "oscillation" (60 found)
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14 entriesAtlantic multidecadal oscillationBloch oscillationMadden-Julian oscillationNorth Atlantic OscillationNorth Pacific OscillationShubnikov-de Haas oscillationSouthern Oscillationbaryon acoustic oscillationclimate oscillationdecadal oscillationpogo oscillationquasi-biennial oscillationquasi-periodic oscillationquasi-quadrennial oscillation
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12 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَذَبْذُب noun (the act of oscillating)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вибрация noun (the act of oscillating)
- осцилация noun (the act of oscillating)
Catalan
1 entries- oscil·lació noun (the act of oscillating)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 振盪 /振荡 noun (the act of oscillating)
Czech
2 entries- kmitání noun (the act of oscillating)
- oscilace noun (the act of oscillating)
Dutch
1 entries- trilling noun (the act of oscillating)
French
1 entries- oscillation noun (the act of oscillating)
Galician
1 entries- oscilación noun (the act of oscillating)
Georgian
4 entries- მერყეობა noun (the act of oscillating)
- ოსცილაცია noun (the act of oscillating)
- რყევა noun (the act of oscillating)
- რწევა noun (the act of oscillating)
German
2 entries- Oszillation noun (the act of oscillating)
- Schwingung noun (the act of oscillating)
Greek
1 entries- ταλάντωση noun (the act of oscillating)
Hebrew
4 entries- אוסילציה noun (math: of a function)
- תְּנִידָה noun (the act of oscillating)
- תְּנוּדָה noun (the act of oscillating)
- תנודה noun (math: of a function)
Ido
1 entries- ocilo noun (the act of oscillating)
Indonesian
2 entries- osilasi noun (the act of oscillating)
- osilasi noun (math: of a function)
Italian
1 entries- oscillazione noun (the act of oscillating)
Japanese
1 entries- 振動 noun (the act of oscillating)
Kazakh
1 entries- тербеліс noun (the act of oscillating)
Persian
1 entries- نوسان noun (the act of oscillating)
Portuguese
1 entries- oscilação noun (the act of oscillating)
Romanian
1 entries- oscilare noun (the act of oscillating)
Russian
2 entries- кача́ние noun (the act of oscillating)
- колеба́ние noun (the act of oscillating)
Spanish
2 entries- libración noun (the act of oscillating)
- oscilación noun (the act of oscillating)
Swedish
2 entries- oscillation noun (the act of oscillating)
- svängning noun (the act of oscillating)
Tagalog
1 entries- tugoy noun (the act of oscillating)
Turkish
1 entries- salınım noun (the act of oscillating)
Ukrainian
1 entries- колива́ння noun (the act of oscillating)
Welsh
1 entries- osgiliad noun (the act of oscillating)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
It was November, 1904, when Mr. Fleming filed his patent application for a device he called an "oscillation valve."
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This new way of observing neutrino oscillation is the key for scientists to be able to make measurements that would allow them to distinguish the different oscillations of neutrinos and its anti-particle counterpart anti-neutrinos. This is something that could help in better understanding the physical processes that involve matter and antimatter.
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Its motion resembles the oscillation of a pendulum.
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