Oscillation \Os`cil*la"tion\, n. [L. oscillatio a swinging.]
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   1. The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and
      forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
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   2. Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
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            His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme
            points of the oscillation were not very remote.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   Axis of oscillation, Center of oscillation. See under
      Axis, and Center.
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	oscillation
    n 1: the process of oscillating between states
    2: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
       [syn: oscillation, vibration]
    3: a single complete execution of a periodically repeated
       phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" [syn:
       cycle, oscillation]

	

	35 Moby Thesaurus words for "oscillation":
   alternation, beat, cyclicalness, equivocation, fluctuation,
   intermittence, intermittency, meter, pendulation, pendulum motion,
   periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, pulsation,
   reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence,
   return, rhythm, seasonality, seesawing, shifting, shilly-shally,
   shilly-shallying, shuffling, teeter-tottering, teetering,
   tottering, undulation, vacillation, variation, vicissitude,
   wavering, wobbling