OSCILLATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oscillating mean? 

• OSCILLATING (adjective)
  The adjective OSCILLATING has 1 sense:

1. having periodic vibrations

  Familiarity information: OSCILLATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSCILLATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having periodic vibrations

Synonyms:

oscillating; oscillatory

Similar:

periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)

 Context examples 

His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My impression is, that I was in a state of confusion about it, and, oscillating between the two points, touched neither.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A physical phenomenon involving the interaction of atomic nuclei placed in an external magnetic field with an applied electromagnetic field oscillating at a particular frequency.

(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, NCI Thesaurus)

Applying a high-frequency, oscillating magnetic field to the object caused the iron oxide particles to heat up through induction and warm the entire gripper.

(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)

A technique for determining the zeta potential of a sample through the detection of the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of an oscillating electric field.

(Electrophoretic Light Scattering, NCI Thesaurus)

Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through high adventure and noble deeds to Her—ay, and with her, winning her, his arm about her, and carrying her on in flight through the empery of his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But no one stopped it, and he was glad, punching on wearily and endlessly with his one arm, battering away at a bloody something before him that was not a face but a horror, an oscillating, hideous, gibbering, nameless thing that persisted before his wavering vision and would not go away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)