Crossword clues for fluctuation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluctuation \Fluc`tu*a"tion\, n. [L. fluctuatio; cf. F. fluctuation.]
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
(Med.) The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French fluctuacion (12c.) or directly from Latin fluctuationem (nominative fluctuatio) "a wavering, vacillation," noun of action from past participle stem of fluctuare "to undulate, to move in waves," from fluctus "a wave, billow, surge, a flowing," from past participle of fluere "to flow" (see fluent).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction. 2 A wavering; unsteadiness. 3 In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Price fluctuations are upward or downward wings in the prices of products in an economy. Fluctuations in prices are a common phenomenon in the economic world, particularly among producers of agricultural products.
Fluctuation may refer to:
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Quantum fluctuation arising from the uncertainty principle
- Primordial fluctuations, density variations in the early universe
- Universal conductance fluctuations, a quantum physics phenomenon encountered in electrical transport experiments in mesoscopic species
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Statistical fluctuations, very important in statistics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics
- Thermal fluctuations, statistical fluctuations in a thermodynamic variable
- An alternative name for conjuncture, a critical combination of events in economics
- Volatility (finance), price fluctuation
Usage examples of "fluctuation".
In many of his contemporaries also much the same fluctuation of mood was occurring, and to them as to Paul it seemed that the issue lay between the old faith, however modernized, and the complete abnegation of human dignity.
Only with the help of ampere meters and polarizers did they discover that the growth on the slopes was causing the fluctuation of the magnetic field.
They have brought in materialism, atheism, class war, weak happiness ideals, race suicide, social atomism, racial promiscuity, decadence in the arts, erotomania, disintegration of the family, private and public dishonor, slatternly feminism, economic fluctuation and catastrophe, civil war in the family of Europe, planned degeneration of the youth through vile films and literature, and through neurotic doctrines in education.
Now part of an uplifted mountain, now sunk at the bottom of some sea, Centennial experienced wild fluctuations.
If they sold out and hoarded, some fluctuation in exchange might still engulf great fractions of their capital.
It was noted that where the radiations pass through the auroral zone, fluctuations are usually present and that they presumably must be due to the very disturbed ionospheric conditions caused by the aurora in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
Surreptitious exploitation, of currency fluctuations particularly, fueled a discreet auxiliary engine of the Berlin banking boom, and I knew that Krone was a prince of that realm, too.
The padd held notations from Data regarding the current fluctuation and reaction rate of the Ntignano sun .
What it appears to be is a slight fluctuation, as if there were some signal that was a part of the whole, and yet not entirely in synch with it.
Like our fingers on granite, the string smears out the jittery ultramicroscopic fluctuations of the gravitational field.
When the mind is observed free of any conceptual fluctuation, it is seen as an unobscured, clear, and vivid vacuity, without any difference between former and latter states.
They left behind just enough to complete the ceremony, just enough to keep the volume of the chant at a level where Vok would not notice the fluctuation in the One Voice that would indicate to him that they had left.
Where they differ is in the unique properties of their cell membranes, for the nerve cell membrane is excitable - which means that in response to a signal, such as a small local fluctuation in ion concentration across the membrane, it can rapidly become permeable to the ions outside it.
The annual fluctuation in natural phytoplankton density appeared to be very slight, providing a good set of parameters to begin studying the curious interaction between Ulva morina and Thiouni.
The vegetable product through which this protectorate first attracted trade was coffee, the export of which, however, has passed through very disheartening fluctuations.