What is "fluctuating"

Usage examples of "fluctuating".

The pound had been fluctuating wildly in the money markets of the world and the arbitrage dealers had made a killing.

Some of those, however, on whom Charles principally depended, now stood aloof, either fluctuating in their principles, astonished at the boldness of the undertaking, or startled at the remonstrances of their friends, who did not fail to represent, in aggravated colours, all the danger of embarking in such a desperate enterprise.

It only took a few mils of magsol to attune the tiny, fluctuating electromagnetic fields of human brain waves to the Ssi-ruuvi entechment apparatus.

Their fluctuating and often lengthy lists of ingredients combined distilled spirits and wine with ginger, galangal, and sometimes cardamom among other spices and herbs.

Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.

Confronted with the hard evidence of fluctuating spice deliveries, the Naib could no longer deny them.

He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.

Glancing further back, Tiern saw that Juste, Loran and Modoc, too, were cloaking themselves behind the fluctuating protection of their auras.

Although the membership of the group of producers of cheap hats is fluctuating, its total output of hats each year is a factor in the competitive situation.

Yet the infant human can see from birth, rapidly develops stereoscopic vision and the capacity to focus, and soon learns to recognize objects even when they are seen at fluctuating angles and distances and in different forms of illumination.

The fluctuating forces, the vast range of country covered, and the petty farms which give their names to positions, all tend to make the issue vague and the narrative obscure.

Ottawa area Romanies had a fluctuating membership composed of whichever of the more important Rom happened to be in town at the time.

The multitude of subjects of an inferior rank was uncertain and fluctuating.

And, indeed, Plato saw the entire manifest world as a pale image of a Reality and Light beyond the Cave of Shadows, the Cave in which the troglodytes are chained, the Cave of fleeting sensory impressions and fluctuating mental opinions.

Have you noticed the air of suspense, of fluctuating hope and doubt, triumph and despair which has characterized our noble band of financiers during the last few days?