oscillation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Wikipedia

Wikipedia oscillation (plural oscillations)

1. the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
2. a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
3. a single such cycle
4. (mathematics) (of a function) defined for each point x in the domain of the function by $\inf\left\{\mathrm{diam}(f(U))\mid U\mathrm{\ is\ a\ neighborhood\ of\ }x\right\}$, and describes the difference (possibly ∞) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.

Related terms

• oscillator

Translations

the act of oscillating

Catalan: oscil·lació (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 振盪 (cmn), 振荡 (cmn) (zhèndàng) Czech: kmitání (cs) n., oscilace (cs) f. Dutch: trilling (nl) French: oscillation (fr) f.

German: Schwingung (de) f., Oszillation (de) f. Italian: oscillazione (it) f. Japanese: 振動 (ja) (しんどう, shindō) Romanian: oscilare (ro) f. Russian: колебание (ru) (kolebánije) n., качание (ru) (kačánije) n.

math: of a function

Hebrew: תנודה (he) (tnudá) f., אוסילציה (he) (osilátzya) f.

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