oscillation
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Other Words from oscillation
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adjective
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change, fluctuation, flux, inconstancy
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The camera rarely sits still — sometimes swiveling on its axis, sometimes stalking the characters from behind — and its movements drive the picture’s own tonal oscillations between ecstasy and dread. — Los Angeles Times, "Toronto Film Festival: ‘Waves’ and ‘Just Mercy’ shine a light on black American families in crisis," 7 Sep. 2019 Part of the reason may be due to a trend called Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, a natural cycle of warming and cooling thought to occur in the Atlantic Ocean on a roughly 20- to 40-year cycle. — National Geographic, "Hurricane Dorian—the science behind the dangerous storm," 30 Aug. 2019 In a hot nail, thermal oscillations make the domains unstable. — Rhett Allain, WIRED, "The Physics of Falling Magnets in Stranger Things Season 3," 9 Aug. 2019 Sound is a mechanical oscillation made up of quasiparticles known as phonons. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Scientists found these old photographs contain metallic nanoparticles," 12 June 2019 The common orientation of the nanowires gave light from each LED a single preferred oscillation, or polarization. — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, "LEDs created from wonder material could revolutionize lighting and displays," 4 June 2019 And convection starts bringing the products of these oscillations higher up into the planet's envelope. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Jupiter may have had a head-on collision with a massive protoplanet," 14 Aug. 2019 Flavor swapping, also called neutrino oscillations, explains those deficits. — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, "Resurrected detector will hunt for some of the strangest particles in the universe," 8 Aug. 2019 These oscillations would also arise if instead the universe experienced a period of rapid inflation. — Quanta Magazine, "A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory," 11 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'oscillation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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