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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Oscillating \Os"cil*la`ting\, a. That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. {Oscillating engine}, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. --Weale. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Oscillate \Os"cil*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Oscillated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Oscillating}.] [L. oscillare to swing, fr. oscillum a swing, a little mask or puppet made to be hung from trees and swing in the wind, prob. orig., a little mouth, a dim. from os mouth. See {Oral}, and cf. {Osculate}.] 1. To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway. 2. To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth. The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits. --Dc Quincey. | |
