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oscillative

oscillative adjective: tending to oscillate; oscillatory, oscillating.

Adjective

oscillative (not comparable)

  1. Tending to oscillate; oscillatory, oscillating.
    • this oscillative antagonism between incompatible paradoxesc. 1860-1861, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theology

Origin of oscillative

From oscillate + -ive.

Words formed from oscillative

Questions about oscillative

What does oscillative mean?
Oscillative means tending to oscillate; oscillatory, oscillating.
What part of speech is oscillative?
Oscillative is an adjective.

Words near oscillative in the dictionary

  1. oscillational
  2. oscillationally
  3. oscillationless
  4. oscillationlike
  5. oscillations
  6. oscillative
  7. oscillatively
  8. oscillativity
  9. oscillaton
  10. oscillatons
  11. oscillator

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