fluctuate
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fluctuate
- /ˈflʌkt͡ʃu.eɪt/
- /ˈflʌkʃu.eɪt/
- /ˈflʌktju.eɪt/
Where it comes from
First attested in 1630; borrowed from Latin flūctuātus, perfect passive participle of flūctuō (“(of the sea) to surge, swell; (of man) to waver, fluctuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
verb fluctuates · fluctuating · fluctuated
- To vary irregularly; to swing.
- To undulate. One of them, at great Expence of Algebra, proves, that the Motes, which in Scotomias, we seem to have in our Eyes, are not real Bodies fluctuating in them.
- To be irresolute; to waver. I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.
- To cause to vary irregularly.
- To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
adjective more fluctuate · most fluctuate
- Tossed up and down the waves.
- Wavering, fickle.
