oscillating
/ˈɑsəlˌeɪtɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values.
Example Sentences
- "But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before."
- "In general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating."
- "When examining work on the history of sociology, however, one finds a more oscillating pattern: disciplinary marginality, followed by greater centrality, followed by a return to the margins."
- "Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means."
Inflected Forms
more oscillating (comparative)
most oscillating (superlative)