Meaning Of The Word Oscillate

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Oscillate Meaning

Oscillate Definition
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What's The Definition Of Oscillate?

oscillate
If the level or value of something oscillates between one amount and another, it keeps going up and down between the two amounts.
If you oscillate between two moods, attitudes, or types of behaviour, you keep changing from one to the other and back again.
verb: If an object oscillates, it moves repeatedly from one position to another and back again, or keeps getting bigger and smaller.

oscillate in American English
to cause to oscillate
to swing or move regularly back and forth
intransitive verb: to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does
transitive verb: to cause to move to and fro; vibrate

oscillate in British English
verb: to move or swing from side to side regularly

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