oscillating

verbchange back and forth

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Synonyms for oscillating

verb change back and forth

Antonyms for oscillating

More words related to oscillating

bipolar

adjective. marked by opposite extremes

vacillating

adjective. changing

vibrant

adjective. throbbing

wavering

adjective. vacillant

zigzag

adjective. moving side to side

Word Origin & History

1726, back-formation from oscillation, or else from Latin oscillatus, past participle of oscillare (see oscillation). From 1917 in electronics. Related: Oscillated; oscillating.

Example Sentences for oscillating

The globe was turning rapidly now, oscillating from side to side.

In a whisper he besought the oscillating student to come outside.

They were oscillating between two methods—re-making or doing nothing.

The engines for the paddle-wheels were of the oscillating type.

It hung there before him as in a dream, oscillating back and forth.

If this motion is accompanied by a click in the receivers the tube is oscillating.

The oscillating circuit of Fig. 125 includes part of the antenna.

Suppose the current is oscillating one million times a second.

The oscillating motion of those in the saddle was almost unendurable.

I am a jellyfish, a huge, gross mass of oscillating protoplasm, a—a..