Synonyms of the word oscillation


OSCILLATIONACTION - ACTIVITY - CYCLE - UNDULATION - VIBRATION - WAVE

oscillation

  • n. the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.
  • n. a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean.
  • n. a single such cycle.

action

  • n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • n. A way of motion or functioning.
  • n. A fast-paced activity.
  • n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
  • n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
  • n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
  • n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
  • n. (military) Combat.
  • n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
  • n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
  • n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
  • n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
  • n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
  • n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
  • interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
  • v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

  • n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
  • n. Something done as an action or a movement.
  • n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
  • n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

cycle

  • n. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  • n. A complete rotation of anything.
  • n. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  • n. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  • n. (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly…
  • n. A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
  • n. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
  • n. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either…
  • n. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
  • n. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
  • n. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
  • n. An age; a long period of time.
  • n. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
  • n. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
  • v. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
  • v. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  • v. (electronics) To turn power off and back on.
  • v. (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing…

undulation

  • n. an instance or act of undulating.
  • n. a wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
  • n. (music) a tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
  • n. a wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
  • n. a wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.

vibration

  • n. The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
  • n. (physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
  • n. A single complete vibrating motion.
  • n. (slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.

wave

  • v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
  • v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  • v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  • n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  • n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
  • v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

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