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oscillation

[os-uh-ley-shuhn] / ˌɒs əˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
swinging
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“There’s a pattern of the dollar going through these oscillations. Historically, this is not unusual,” Schiffer said in a phone interview.

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Using this approach, the team generated surface acoustic waves vibrating at about 1 gigahertz, meaning billions of oscillations per second.

From Science Daily

A study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, explains how rhythmic brain activity known as alpha oscillations helps the brain separate the body from the outside world.

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This process, called oscillation, implies that neutrinos must have mass.

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In that framework, “bubbles” are defined as prices that accelerate super-exponentially toward a critical point, with oscillations that become more frequent as the “bubble” matures.

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