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Definition of Oscillates
1. oscillate [v] - See also: oscillate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscillates
Literary usage of Oscillates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... quently oscillates with a very high frequency, a reactance coil, commonly
called a choke coil, is installed at this point to impede the discharge of ..."
2. A Course of Pure Mathematics by Godfrey Harold Hardy (1908)
"Otherwise (p (n) oscillates finitely, as may be shown by arguments similar ...
If 0 (n) oscillates and, however great be UQ we can find values of n greater ..."
3. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1901)
"... general equations to the case of the fluid surrounding a body which oscillates
as a pendulum. General laws which follow from the form of the equations. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"48* ; if the model be distorted by the hand it oscillates tip and down on each
side of the position of equilibrium, as a string similarly loaded would do. ..."
5. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The Wing oscillates unequally with Reference to a Given Line. ... The tail of
the fish oscillates on either side of a given line, but it is otherwise with ..."
6. The Applications of Elliptic Functions by George Greenhill (1892)
"4, the angle ADQ or <j> = nt (not amnt, as in the circular pendulum) for all
finite oscillations; for as P oscillates on the arc BAB' of the inverted ..."
7. Mathematical Questions and Solutions (1894)
"Prove that its length oscillates between I and 1(1 + I/I'), where I' is the ...
The length of the string therefore oscillates between I + Pll' and I. 10407. ..."
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