oscillations

Noun

oscillation (countable and uncountable, plural oscillations)

1. the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
   • The trial running tests which were made with the vehicles showed that they ride very steadily laterally, with almost complete absence of oscillation at all speeds.1950 January, “British Railways Double-Deck Suburban Stock”, in Modern Railways, page 57
2. a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
3. a single such cycle
4. (of a function) defined for each point x in the domain of the function by inf diam(f(U))∣Uisaneighborhoodofx, and describes the difference (possibly ∞) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.