NOUN | event | fluctuation | a wave motion |
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event | fluctuation, variation | an instance of change | |
attribute | fluctuation, wavering | the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes |
Sounds | flah.kchuwey'shahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | A wave motion. | |
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Example | "the fluctuations of the sea" | |
Broader | wave, undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
Spanish | fluctuación | |
Verbs | fluctuate | move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern |
fluctuate | cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern |
Meaning | An instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change. | |
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Synonym | variation | |
Narrower | allomerism | (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form |
business cycle, trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline | |
daily variation | fluctuations that occur between one day and the next | |
deviation, divergence, departure, difference | A variation that deviates from the standard or norm | |
diurnal variation | fluctuations that occur during each day | |
substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch | An event in which one thing is substituted for another | |
tide | Something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea) | |
vicissitude | A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | |
Broader | change, alteration, modification | An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another |
Spanish | fluctuación, variación | |
Catalan | fluctuació, variació | |
Verbs | fluctuate | move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern |
Meaning | The quality of being unsteady and subject to changes. | |
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Example | "he kept a record of price fluctuations" | |
Synonym | wavering | |
Narrower | scintillation | The twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight |
Broader | irregularity, unregularity | not characterized by a fixed principle or rate |
Spanish | fluctuación, oscilación | |
Catalan | fluctuació, oscil·lació | |
Verbs | fluctuate | be unstable / unstable |
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