transcription, транскрипция: [ ɒsɪleɪt ]
( oscillates, oscillating, oscillated)
1.
If an object oscillates , it moves repeatedly from one position to another and back again, or keeps getting bigger and smaller. ( FORMAL )
I checked to see if the needle indicating volume was oscillating.
VERB : V
• os‧cil‧la‧tion
(oscillations)
Some oscillation of the fuselage had been noticed on early flights.
N-VAR
2.
If the level or value of something oscillates between one amount and another, it keeps going up and down between the two amounts. ( FORMAL )
Oil markets oscillated on the day’s reports from Geneva.
...an oscillating signal of microwave frequency.
= fluctuate
VERB : no passive , V , V-ing
• os‧cil‧la‧tion
(oscillations)
There have always been slight oscillations in world temperature.
N-VAR
3.
If you oscillate between two moods, attitudes, or types of behaviour, you keep changing from one to the other and back again. ( FORMAL )
The president of the Republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism.
VERB : no passive , V between n and n
• os‧cil‧la‧tion
...that perpetual oscillation between despair and distracted joy.
N-UNCOUNT