Definition of Oscillations. Meaning of Oscillations. Synonyms of Oscillations

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Definition of Oscillations

Oscillation
Oscillation Os`cil*la"tion, n. [L. oscillatio a swinging.] 1. The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration. 2. Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth. His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme points of the oscillation were not very remote. --Macaulay. Axis of oscillation, Center of oscillation. See under Axis, and Center.

Meaning of Oscillations from wikipedia

- different states. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum and alternating current. Oscillations can be used in physics to approximate...
- interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appear either as oscillations in membrane potential or as rhythmic patterns of action...
- produced in nuclear reactors. No oscillations were found until a detector was installed at a distance 1–2 km. Such oscillations give the value of the parameter...
- Nikola Tesla (/ˈnɪkələ ˈtɛslə/; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, ****urist...
- The Piora Oscillations are two cold periods in the Alpine climate history of the Holocene Epoch. Its dating differs between authors and no consistent modern...
- Betatron oscillations are the fast transverse oscillations of a charged particle in various focusing systems: linear accelerators, storage rings, transfer...
- Friedel oscillations describing fermions in a Fermi fluid or Fermi gas require a quasi-particle or a scattering treatment. Such oscillations depict a...
- harmonic oscillator, and it undergoes simple harmonic motion: sinusoidal oscillations about the equilibrium point, with a constant amplitude and a constant...
- Mirnov oscillations (a.k.a. magnetic oscillations) are amplitude perturbations of the magnetic field in a plasma. It is named after Sergei V. Mirnov who...
- Neutral B meson oscillations (or B – B oscillations) are one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the...