Word Finder - oscillating

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To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.

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A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.

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To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.

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The mood for change oscillated from day to day.

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To vary above and below a mean value.

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Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion.

But oscillating between the two fields, it took part in neither.

This ray is also given a periodic motion of the same frequency by reflection from a separate oscillating mirror so as to make the two motions at right angles to one another, and thus we have depicted on the screen a bright line having the same form as the periodic current being tested.

Ned Minns Ned is developing a novel floating oscillating water column wave energy converter.

Technology incorporating an oscillating hydrofoil varies considerably from more commonly used rotational MEC devices.

Consequently, the face which the moon presents to the earth is subject to a corresponding variation, the globe as we see it slightly oscillating in a period nearly that of revolution.

Electromagnetic waves consist of oscillating electric and magnetic fields which induce oscillations of the dipole.

It made each cycle of the oscillating universe get bigger and last longer than the previous one.

Centre of Percussion.It is obviously desirable that the deviations or changes of motion of oscillating pieces in machinery should, as far as possible, be effected by forces applied at their centres of percussion.

For less windy nights or small planting areas, you can set a box fan or oscillating fan near your plants to create the air circulation you need.

Foil-based electric razors feature a structure of fine metal bands (foil) with many holes wrapped over an oscillating cutter block.

Most shavers from the Philips Norelco line continue using the rotating blade design patented half a century ago, which many argue is superior to the oscillating heads found in many other brands of electric shavers.

Foil shavers feature one or two floating heads which have oscillating cutters behind a perforated screen.

More artists and inventors worked with the atomizer over the years, creating a continuous air flow, oscillating needle and reservoir for ink.

The look was anarchronistic - the hulking computer monitors being driven by a keyboard right from an old Remington manual typewriter, and offices being cooled by oscillating fans that were right out of the 1930s.

His transmitter consists of a nearly closed oscillating circuit comprising a condenser or battery of Leyden jars, a spark gap, and the primary coil of an oscillation transformer consisting of one turn of thick wire wound on a wooden frame.

This apparatus has an oil-cup consisting of a cylindrical brass or gunmetal vessel, the cover of which is provided with three rectangular holes which may be closed and opened by means of a perforated slide moving in grooves; the movement of the slide causes a small oscillating colzaor rape-oil lamp to be tilted so that the flame (of specified size) is brought just below the surface of the lid.

When the molecules are oscillating about their equilibrium positions, there is no reason why their mean distance apart should be the same as when they are at rest.

Thomson 6 places spherical bulbs inside thick spiral conductors through which the oscillating discharge of a powerful battery is led.

It is said that the idea of a liquid compass was suggested to Crow -by the experience of the captain of a coasting vessel whose compass card was oscillating wildly until a sea broke on board filling the compass bowl, when the card became steady.

In the case of a particle oscillating under gravity on a smooth cycloid from rest at the cusp the hotlograph is a circle through the pole, described with constant velocity.

In these researches he skilfully took advantage of the well-known property of reciprocity between the centres of suspension and oscillation of an oscillating body, so as to determine experimentally the precise position of the centre of oscillation; the distance between these centres was then the length of the ideal simple pendulum having the same time of oscillation.

Accordingly, in the Republic he has no objection to trying the question of the intrinsic superiority of philosophic or virtuous' life by the standard of pleasure, and argues that the philosophic (or good) man alone enjoys real pleasure, while the sensualist spends his life in oscillating between painful want and the merely neutral state of painlessness, which he mistakes for positive pleasure.

And farther still, beyond those forests and fields, the bright, oscillating, limitless distance lured one to itself.

It used a smooth, oscillating hook that utilized a simple threading technique.

It also introduced the deliberate anachronism, such as the oscillating fans and manual keyboards in the newsroom of Network 23.

These rates can be measured using a tapered element oscillating microbalance.