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fluxuating

fluxuating is the misspelling of fluctuating.

Meaning of fluctuating

Adjective

fluctuating (comparative more fluctuating, superlative most fluctuating)

  1. Subject to irregular changes in quantity or quality.
    • ...they sat down beside the hearth in the adjoining room, over which the embers of the wood-fire cast a fluctuating light; now the long shadows falling duskily around—now dispersing them with bursts of brilliant flame, as the lighter wood kindled into a short-lived blaze.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 105

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Origin of fluxuating

This misspelling comes from wrongly applying the change from -ct- to -x- in many English words of Latin origin to this word and the influence of the related word flux which did undergo that change.

Questions about fluxuating

What is fluxuating the misspelling of?
Fluxuating is the misspelling of fluctuating.

Words near fluxuating in the dictionary

  1. fluxtube
  2. fluxtubes
  3. fluxuate
  4. fluxuated
  5. fluxuates
  6. fluxuating
  7. fluxuation
  8. fluxuations
  9. fluxure
  10. Fluxus
  11. fluxweed

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