fluctuating
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
fluctuating
- present participle and gerund of fluctuate
Adjective[edit]
fluctuating (comparative more fluctuating, superlative most fluctuating)
- Subject to irregular changes in quantity or quality.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 105:
- ...they sat down beside the hearth in the adjoining room, over which the embers of the wood-fire cast a fluctuating light; now the long shadows falling duskily around—now dispersing them with bursts of brilliant flame, as the lighter wood kindled into a short-lived blaze.
Noun[edit]
fluctuating (plural fluctuatings)
- A fluctuation.