Word Finder - fluctuating

definition

To vary irregularly; to swing.

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To undulate.

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To be irresolute; to waver.

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I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.

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To cause to vary irregularly.

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A fluctuation.

The boundary between the two nations was indeed in this part very fluctuating.

The variations which de Vries has called mutations, and which were at first associated by Bateson with what he called discontinuous variations as the exclusive source of new species, are now supposed by de Vries to be distinguished from fluctuating variations by their mode of origin.

The conceptions of Weismann afford no ground for rejecting fluctuating variations from the materials for the production of species.

In the second place, it has been urged, particularly by de Vries, that experiment and observation have shown that the possible range of fluctuating variation is strictly limited.

Breeders, he says, who try to build up qualities by the selection of the fluctuating variations that occur soon find that they reach a maximum beyond which their efforts fail, unless they turn to the more rarely occurring but heritable mutations.

As yet no solid reason has been alleged for excluding fluctuating variations, on account of their limitation, from the materials for specific change.

This prevents indeed any continuity of policy, for the majority in congress is perpetually fluctuating, and ministerial crises rapidly follow one another.

The finances of the country in the early summer of 1864 were in a critical condition; a few days before leaving office Secretary Chase had been compelled to withdraw from the market $32,000,000 of 6% bonds, on account of the lack of acceptable bids; gold had reached 285 and was fluctuating between 225 and 250, while the value of the paper dollar had sunk as low as 34 cents.

A record of the constantly fluctuating so-called " night readings " in a large town is most interesting and instructive.

The fluctuating influence of each party with the king was marked by the passing of the chancellorship from Arundel to Henry Beaufort and back again during the five years of Henrys illness.

In the early middle ages the emperor had already his consiliarii; but his council was a fluctuating body of personal advisers.

Though common sense will admit that virtues are the best of goods, it still undoubtedly conceives practical wisdom as chiefly exercised in providing those inferior goods which Aristotle, after recognizing the need or use of them for the realization of human well-being, has dropped out of sight; and the result is that, in trying to make clear his conception of practical wisdom, we find ourselves fluctuating continually between the common notion, which he does not distinctly reject, and the notion required as the keystone of his ethical system.

Similarly, in the view taken by the Stoics of the duties of social decorum, and in their attitude to the popular religion, we find a fluctuating compromise between the disposition to repudiate what is conventional, and the disposition to revere what is 1 The Stoics seem to have varied in their view of " good repute," eu50 ia; at first, when the school was more under the influence of Cynicism, they professed an outward as well as an inward indifference to it; ultimately they conceded the point to common sense, and included it among rrponyp. va.

Disdaining the illusory dream of the imperial crown, still cherished by his legal advisers, he pushed forward towards that fluctuating eastern frontier, the line of least resistance, which would have yielded to him had it not been for the unfortunate interruption of the Hundred Years War.

Relatively minor variation from perfect symmetry is called fluctuating asymmetry.

Through our partnership with H2O homes overseas countrywide we hope to educate consumers on the merits and risks of fluctuating currencies.

The various events have had fluctuating fortunes over the years with the West of England leading the way with its consistently high entry.

Levels in Beacon East fluctuating depending on flow in stream varying from approx 4 ' deep to pipes nearly full to top.

We want to provide you with the most competitive fare deals in a fluctuating marketplace and because of this prices may go down.

Two of these sites are fluctuating meres while the third is a man-made pond.

The Local Economy More economic self-reliance will help to protect communities from the fluctuating fortunes of the global markets.

It is targeted particularly for those with fluctuating, low or no taxable earnings such as a non-working spouse.

The fluctuating flows which transport sediment and create dune movement have been difficult to visualize using conventional dye tracers.

The weekend forecast looks unsettled with fluctuating temperatures on the high hills.

Each has a distinct number or name which marks its place in the cycle, and as this is generally given in referring to dates, along with the other chronological characters of the year, the ambiguity which arises from following a fluctuating or uncertain epoch is entirely obviated.

In spite of the fact that in a few of its later representatives Gnosticism assumed a more refined and spiritual aspect, and even produced blossoms of a true and beautiful piety, it is fundamentally and essentially an unstable religious syncretism, a religion in which the determining forces were a fantastic oriental imagination and a sacramentalism which degenerated into the wildest superstitions, a weak dualism fluctuating unsteadily between asceticism and libertinism.

But its precise limits are difficult to assign, the Phrygian frontier being vague and fluctuating, while in the north-west the Troad was sometimes included in Mysia, sometimes not.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them.

Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment.

With fluctuating stock market and uncertainty surrounding both the dollar and the Euro, buying and selling gold and silver looks like a particularly attractive choice for investors.

With the way gas prices are fluctuating nowadays, you never know how much cash you're going to need at the pump.

With fluctuating gas prices, a prepaid gas card can help you to spend a lower fixed price for your gas.

Manufacturers are adding new models rapidly as they work to address environmental concerns and fluctuating gasoline prices.

In the latter case the organization seems to become plastic, and we have much fluctuating variability.

The high and heavy cars, the high speeds, the severe weather in the northern states in winter, the fluctuating nature of the business, resulting often in the employment of poorly qualified men and in other irregularities, are among the causes of this state of things.

In March 1646 a cessation of hostilities was arranged between Ormonde and the Catholics; and O'Neill, furnished with supplies by the papal nuncio, Rinuccini, turned against the Scottish parliamentary army under General Monro, who had been operating with fluctuating success in Ireland since April 1642.

The entire tusks are sometimes used for decorative purposes, and are of considerable, though fluctuating, value.

In the anticipations of the future prevalent amongst the early Christians (c. 50-150) it is necessary to distinguish a fixed and a fluctuating element.

As the rock was highly viscous and the surface over which it moved was often irregular the motion was disturbed and fluctuating; hence the sinuous and contorted appearance frequently assumed by the banding.

Of far more political importance than these fluctuating wars of Stephen suffering friend of the emperor into a national deliverer.

Discovery in these various directions then led physicians to regard fever and inflammation not as separable entities, but as fluctuating symptomgroups, due to swervings of function from the normal balance under contingent forces.

The superstitious associations of crystal-gazing, as of hypnotism, appear to bar the way to official scientific investigation, and the fluctuating proficiency of the seers, who cannot command success, or determine the causes and conditions of success and failure, tends in the same direction.

Noteworthy coincidences in the lives of Abraham and Isaac, noticed above, point to the fluctuating state of traditions in the oral stage, or suggest that Abraham's life has been built up by borrowing from the common stock of popular lore.

The population of Kerbela, necessarily fluctuating, is estimated at something over 60,000, of whom the principal part are Shiites, chiefly Persians, with a goodly mixture of British Indians.

In this mountainous region, between the Black Sea and the Persian frontier, the war was carried on with fluctuating fortune.

The earlier Saxony was the district lying between the Elbe and the Saale on the east, the Eider on the north and the Rhine on the west, with a fluctuating boundary on the south.

Distinct in time of war, the power of the chief may be fluctuating and faint in time of peace; even in time of war it may be subject to the authority of a council.

Like "Brazil," it dates from a period anterior to the discovery of the New World, "Antilia," as stated above, being one of those mysterious lands, which figured on the medieval charts sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, constantly fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canaries and East India.

Thus there came into the fluctuating mass a strong movement and formative impulse, and the individual systems and sects sprang up like mushrooms from this soil.

There is practically neither gold nor silver in circulation, and the value of the banknotes is so fluctuating that trade is seriously hampered.