OSCILLATE


Meaning of OSCILLATE in English

[verb] [I] - to move repeatedly from one position to anotherThe needle on the dial oscillated between 'full' and 'empty'.(formal) If you oscillate between feelings or opinions, you change repeatedly from one to the other.Their emotions were oscillating between desperation and hope.He oscillated between disgust at their behaviour and sympathy for the terrible situation which had caused it.(specialized) A wave or an electric current which oscillates changes regularly in strength or direction.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.