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fluctuator

fluctuator noun: one who or that which fluctuates.

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 fluctuator

pluralfluctuators

Questions about fluctuator

What does fluctuator mean?
Fluctuator means one who or that which fluctuates.
What part of speech is fluctuator?
Fluctuator is a noun.
What is the plural of fluctuator?
The plural of fluctuator is fluctuators.

Words near fluctuator in the dictionary

  1. fluctuation theorem
  2. fluctuational
  3. fluctuations
  4. fluctuative
  5. fluctuatively
  6. fluctuator
  7. fluctuators
  8. fluctuogram
  9. fluctuograms
  10. fluctuous
  11. fluctus

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