Oscillate | Mean of oscillate in English Dictionary
/ˈɑːsəˌleɪt/
- Verb
- to move in one direction and then back again many times
- The fan was oscillating. [=was turning to the right, then to the left, then to the right, etc.]
- Stock prices have continued to oscillate. [=to go up and down]
- an oscillating fan
- to keep changing from one belief, feeling, condition, etc., to an opposite one
- The mood of voters has oscillated between optimism and pessimism.
- The weather oscillated between brutal cold and searing heat.
- to change in strength or direction regularly
- an oscillating electric current
- oscillating radio waves
- stars that oscillate in brightness [=that get brighter, then fainter, then brighter, etc.]
