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Definition of Oscillating
1. Adjective. Having periodic vibrations.
Definition of Oscillating
1. a. That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.
Definition of Oscillating
1. Adjective. Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of oscillate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oscillating
1. oscillate [v] - See also: oscillate
Medical Definition of Oscillating
1. That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscillating
Literary usage of Oscillating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1900)
"This feature shows the origin of the oscillating currents, and the means of ...
_ Obviously, the most important oscillating currents are those in a circuit ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"Further direct-current rules may also be readily generalized for convenient use
in the solution of oscillating-current circuits. A simple example is given ..."
3. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1880)
"ON THE RESISTANCE OF A FLUID TO Two oscillating SPHERES. ... The motion of a
fluid about a solid, oscillating sphere is the same as if the solid sphere were ..."
4. Electric Oscillations and Electric Waves: With Application to by George Washington Pierce (1920)
"Doublet Consisting of an Electron oscillating in a Positive Atom.—One conception
of an oscillating doublet based on the Thomson Atom1 is illustrated in Fig. ..."
5. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DIFFERENTIABLE EVERYWHERE-oscillating FUNCTION. • 427.
The first attempt to construct a function with maxima and minima in every ..."
6. Theory and Calculations of Electrical Circuits by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1917)
"In consequence of the existence of negative power components of reactance in an
oscillating-current circuit, a phenomenon can exist which has no analogy in ..."
7. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1905)
"Energy of an oscillating System. 72. A system is referred to its principal
coordinates, it is required to find its kinetic and potential energies. ..."
8. A Textbook on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines: Or, Internal Combustion Motors by Bryan Donkin (1894)
"Another vertical oscillating single-acting type of the same engine was brought out
... The action was very similar to that of an oscillating steam engine. ..."
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