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fluxuation

fluxuation is the misspelling of fluctuation.

Meaning of fluctuation

Noun

fluctuation (countable and uncountable, plural fluctuations)

  1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.
    • the fluctuations of the sea
  2. A wavering; unsteadiness.
    • fluctuations of opinion
  3. In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.

Origin of fluxuation

* 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. * Can be viewed as deriving from the similarly misspelled fluxuate + -ion.

Questions about fluxuation

What is fluxuation the misspelling of?
Fluxuation is the misspelling of fluctuation.

Words near fluxuation in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fluxuation (page history and authors); fluctuation (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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