oscillating

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oscillating

adjective more oscillating · most oscillating

  1. Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going. But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings
  2. Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values. Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of oscillate

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@misc{oscillating_2026,
  title = {oscillating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oscillating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}