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Grammar : Verb
Spell : os-uh-leyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒs əˌleɪt



Definition of oscillating

Origin :
  • 1726, back-formation from oscillation, or else from Latin oscillatus, past participle of oscillare (see oscillation). From 1917 in electronics. Related: Oscillated; oscillating.
  • verb change back and forth
Example sentences :
  • The globe was turning rapidly now, oscillating from side to side.
  • Extract from : « Gambler's World » by John Keith Laumer
  • In a whisper he besought the oscillating student to come outside.
  • Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
  • They were oscillating between two methods—re-making or doing nothing.
  • Extract from : « A Virgin Heart » by Remy de Gourmont
  • The engines for the paddle-wheels were of the oscillating type.
  • Extract from : « An Unsinkable Titanic » by John Bernard Walker
  • It hung there before him as in a dream, oscillating back and forth.
  • Extract from : « Sound of Terror » by Don Berry
  • If this motion is accompanied by a click in the receivers the tube is oscillating.
  • Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills
  • The oscillating circuit of Fig. 125 includes part of the antenna.
  • Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills
  • Suppose the current is oscillating one million times a second.
  • Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills
  • The oscillating motion of those in the saddle was almost unendurable.
  • Extract from : « Chiquita, an American Novel » by Merrill Tileston
  • I am a jellyfish, a huge, gross mass of oscillating protoplasm, a—a..
  • Extract from : « The Night-Born » by Jack London

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