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How to use oscillation in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Oscillation means the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated. Example: “A large aberrative oscillation has been observed in the financial markets.”

Examples of oscillation by meaning

nounThe 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
  • In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743
  • The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed.2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81

More sentences with oscillation

  • A large aberrative oscillation has been observed in the financial markets.From the entry aberrative
  • From these oscillograms, it is visible that the resonator oscillations are noticeably inharmonic and asymmetric ones.2015, Veniamin Nazarov, Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids, page 188. From the entry oscillogram
  • In all three ethnographic studies, we repeatedly heard an oscillation between praxiological and mediological convictions.2013, Dominic Boyer, The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry mediological
  • The tremulant intentionally disturbs the stability of the wind in order to produce a desirable musical oscillation.2009, John R. Shanon, Understanding the Pipe Organ, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry tremulant
  • Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.1989, R. Raghuram, Computer Simulation of Electronic Circuits, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry race
  • These oscillations would then reach the earth in the whistler mode.1965, Robert A. Helliwell, “History”, in Whistlers and Related Ionospheric Phenomena, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, published 2006…. From the entry dawn chorus
  • This d-c signal is then photochopped in a solid-state oscillation circuit and the resulting a-c signal amplified.1963, Instrumentation Technology - Volume 10, Issues 1-6, page 15. From the entry photochop
  • Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations.1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93. From the entry damp
  • The ice margin had many oscillations, readvances and reretreats, each probably covering many thousands of years.1920, Science, page 285. From the entry reretreat
  • Simultaneous oscillation of pulses with four-fold difference in pulsewidths and tens of Hz repetition rate difference is observed.2016, Ya Liu, Xin Zhao, Guoqing Hu, Cui Li, Bofeng Zhao, Zheng Zheng, “Unidirectional, dual-comb lasing under multiple pulse formation…. From the entry pulsewidths
  • Initial conditions for inflation are set up by cosmological instantons describing underbarrier oscillations in the vicinity of the inflaton potential maximum.2015, A.O. Barvinsky, A.Yu. Kamenshchik, “New type of hill-top inflation: CFT driven cosmology”, in arXiv. From the entry underbarrier
  • Therefore, if absorption causes an attenuation of the oscillation amplitude, the temperature must decrease exponentially with increasing thickness.2000, Shuji Nakamura et al., The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story, Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry exponentially
  • Flutter is seen as the result of fixation and refixation efforts and consists of a short burst of horizontal oscillations.1974, Andrew J. Gay, Eye Movement Disorders, page 142. From the entry flutter
  • At a point of discontinuity, the oscillations accompanying the Gibbs phenomenon have an overshoot of approximately 18% of the amplitude of the discontinuity.1999, Werner S. Weiglhofer, Kenneth A. Lindsay, Ordinary Differential Equations and Applications, page 121. From the entry Gibbs phenomenon
  • The influence of flowmotion on the current signal is highly dependent upon the distance from the electrode to the region undergoing oscillation in perfusion.1991, William Lee Lyons, A mathematical model for solute transport in tissue near a sensing electrode, page 56. From the entry flowmotion
  • The discovery by Kurtz of phase coherent, rapid oscillations in certain Ap stars holds great promise for the new field of asterseismology.1986, W Dziembowski, Philip R Goode, “Asterseismology for certain Ap stars”, in Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, Springer…. From the entry asterseismology
  • In Fig. 4 the isomass lines of equal mₑₑ in the oscillation parameter space are shown, together with various bounds from existing and future reactor and accelerator oscillation experiments.2010, H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Seventy Years of Double Beta Decay, →ISBN. From the entry isomass
  • Livanov established that during the elaboration of a defense conditioned reflex to light in rabbits local high amplitude oscillations appear in the visual and motor areas of the cortex.1962, Works of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity, volume 5, page 12. From the entry electroencephaloscope
  • During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope.1961, Approach, volume 7. From the entry meatball
  • Weather Bureau Historic Weather Maps, the author examined the possible influence of long lunar periods (i.e., the synodical and draconical lunar months) on atmospheric pressure oscillations.1956 May, “Pava, R. (Bucharest), Adalékok a légköri árapály kutatásához. [Contribution to the study of atmospheric tides.]”, in Malcolm…. From the entry draconical
  • Perrine set up long-line circuits, used transmitted vibrations of tuning forks to demonstrate pitch and frequency characteristics, and illustrated .how various frequency oscillations make music, words, and pure sounds.1941, Rutgers Alumni Monthly - Volume 20, Issue 8, page 7. From the entry platformful
  • When the vocal folds are adducted (closed) somewhat gently, then a certain amount of air pressure from the lungs below (subglottal pressure) can set the folds into a self-sustaining oscillation.2011, Sean A. Fulop, Speech Spectrum Analysis, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, pages 5–6. From the entry phonation

Meaning of oscillation

  1. noun The act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.
  2. noun A regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean.
  3. noun A single such cycle.

Full definition of oscillation

Questions about oscillation in a sentence

How do you use oscillation in a sentence?
Oscillation is used as a noun. For example: “A large aberrative oscillation has been observed in the financial markets.”
What is a short sentence with oscillation?
“A large aberrative oscillation has been observed in the financial markets.”
What does oscillation mean?
Oscillation means the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.

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