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fluctuates

fluctuates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fluctuate.

Meaning of fluctuate

Verb

fluctuate (third-person singular simple present fluctuates, present participle fluctuating, simple past and past participle fluctuated)

  1. (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
  2. (intransitive) To undulate.
    • One of them, at great Expence of Algebra, proves, that the Motes, which in Scotomias, we seem to have in our Eyes, are not real Bodies fluctuating in them.1719, William Vickers, An easie and safe method for curing the King's Evil, page 39
  3. (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
    • I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.
  4. (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
  5. (also, figuratively, literally, rare) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.

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Questions about fluctuates

What is fluctuates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fluctuates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fluctuate.

Words near fluctuates in the dictionary

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

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