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fluctuater

fluctuater is the alternative form of fluctuator.

Meaning of fluctuator

Noun

fluctuator (plural fluctuators)

  1. One who or that which fluctuates.
    • Thus, although this department was among the more volatile fluctuators between regular and cutback budgets, the overall effect on the department suggests that growth was nearly static.1988, Susanne Rockne Morris, Budget Cutback: An Empirical Test of Budgeting Theory in Conditions of Fiscal Stress, page 130
  2. A quantum system in which an electric charge moves back and forward between two states that are separated by an energy barrier

Forms of fluctuater

pluralfluctuaters

Questions about fluctuater

What is fluctuater the alternative form of?
Fluctuater is the alternative form of fluctuator.

Words near fluctuater in the dictionary

  1. fluctuance
  2. fluctuancy
  3. fluctuant
  4. fluctuate
  5. fluctuated
  6. fluctuater
  7. fluctuaters
  8. fluctuates
  9. fluctuatest
  10. fluctuateth
  11. fluctuating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fluctuater (page history and authors); fluctuator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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