What is "fluctuations"

Usage examples of "fluctuations".

By interiorizing its awareness, it is no longer merely buffeted by the immediate fluctuations in the environment: its relative autonomyits capacity to stay inwardly focusedincreases.

Sisko grunted as four of the five logs recorded wild fluctuations and then degenerated into solid black lines.

What I said was that such a massive temporal displacement could not be caused by normal quantum fluctuations in the wormhole.

Hovan, I want you to keep an eye out for any voltage fluctuations in the cloaking device.

You asked me to watch out for voltage fluctuations on our cloaking screen?

He could ignore the viewscreen above his head and pay attention just to the tiny fluctuations of his piloting curves.

With the money thus amassed he leased time on computers all over the world in order to control the fluctuations of the money curve.

It is manifest this Utopia could not come about by chance and anarchy, but by co-ordinated effort and a community of design, and to tell of just land laws and wise government, a wisely balanced economic system, and wise social arrangements without telling how it was brought about, and how it is sustained against the vanity and self-indulgence, the moody fluctuations and uncertain imaginations, the heat and aptitude for partisanship that lurk, even when they do not flourish, in the texture of every man alive, is to build a palace without either door or staircase.

But from the fluctuations of his hormone levels I could tell that he was spellbound, utterly fascinated, when I spoke of the way time explorers, reporting on their experiences, are able to recapture the past and make it seem to live again.

He could not detect individual fluctuations in the data except as momentary surges.

We can, also, see that any form represented by few individuals will, during fluctuations in the seasons or in the number of its enemies, run a good chance of utter extinction.

Like stock prices on a wild, roller-coaster day on Wall Street, the amount of money the compulsive borrower possesses at any given moment goes through extreme fluctuations, but when all is said and done, an accounting of his finances shows that he is no better off than when he began.

The central tenet of a smooth and gently curving geometry is justified in the large but breaks down due to quantum fluctuations when pushed to the small.

Like our fingers on granite, the string smears out the jittery ultramicroscopic fluctuations of the gravitational field.

Although the resulting fluctuations are still substantial, this smearing smooths them out just enough to cure the incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics.