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oscillation

[os-uh-lay-shuhn] / ˌɒs əˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
swinging
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The strongest driver of such events does not appear to be the annual oscillation of warm air temperatures that drives the seasonal behaviour of Greenland glacier earthquakes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

"The light wave twists around its axis, and its phase changes in a spiral manner. Moreover, even the polarization -- the direction of oscillation of the electric field -- begins to rotate."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

As they move through space, they can switch from one flavor to another in a process called oscillation.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

"Basically, what we were looking for is the effect of the appearance of new electron neutrinos caused by this oscillation phenomenon."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2026

And the subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension, which broke out in violence only on the occasion of the Civil War.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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