Crossword clues for oscillated
oscillated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oscillate \Os"cil*late\ ([o^]s"s[i^]l*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oscillated ([o^]s"s[i^]l*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Oscillating ([o^]s"s[i^]l*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. oscillare to swing, fr. oscillum a swing, a little mask or puppet made to be hung from trees and swing in the wind, prob. orig., a little mouth, a dim. from os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Osculate.]
To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.
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To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth.
The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits.
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: oscillate)
Usage examples of "oscillated".
Whilst travelling in any direction the apex generally oscillated backwards and forwards to the extent of 1/500 and sometimes of nearly 1/250 of an inch.
The apex oscillated forwards and backwards in the same manner as before.
We thus see that the subpeduncle oscillated up and down, or circumnutated, during its whole downward epinastic course.
During the second day it oscillated four times up and four times down between 8 A.
On the second day, when more accustomed to its new state, it oscillated twice up and twice down during the 24 h.
It sometimes oscillated in the same manner as in the last species, some of the jerks forwards being as much as 1/1000 of an inch.
Its beam oscillated wildly like a madman’s lighthouse as the cactacae fought to point it in the right direction.
Its beam oscillated wildly like a madman’s lighthouse as the cactacae fought to point it in the right direction.
Globules of blood oscillated through the air, fringes rippling like restive jellyfish.
She was content just to admire the genuine panorama, ignoring the various graphic displays that oscillated and scrolled across the consoles as they tabulated the results of the sensor sweeps.
The three lesser stars of her daughters, the Cassoneids, which oscillated about herPeria, Isthucis, and Dometer, the spirits of wind, rain, and cloudwere very close, almost in alignment, which meant that it was early summer.
It oscillated, like a drop alternately flattened to a disk and then pulled into a cigar shape.
His mood oscillated between absolute certainty and awful doubt, but it lingered at neither for long, and generally calmed down to leave him with just enough certainty to keep him moving forward, with the assurance that they would not be away from the village for long.
Maia and Jan had never had a single home, but had oscillated between their parents' families like two small shuttlecocks.
Now that the polar regions had been opened up, a considerable fraction of the human race oscillated from Arctic to Antarctic at six monthly intervals, seeking the long, nightless polar summer.