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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɑsɪleɪt/

動詞

oscillate (third-person singular simple present oscillates, present participle oscillating, simple past and past participle oscillated)

1. (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.

   A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.

   • 2021 December, “Snap Circuits Classic”, in Snap Circuits‎, Elenco, page 27:

     By placing the 0.02μF capacitor on top of the whistle chip, the circuit oscillates at a lower frequency.

2. (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.

   The mood for change oscillated from day to day.

3. (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.

同意語

• vacillate

派生語

関連する語

• oscillation

参考

• undulate

Further reading

• “oscillate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “oscillate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “oscillate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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