MEANING
1. To move or vary repeatedly around a position or value.
2. To move repeatedly between different views, feelings, or courses of action.
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Words that belong together
- oscillate at a frequency
- oscillating signal
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The suspended weight oscillated after the impact.
Voltage oscillated around the target value.
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Word forms
- Base
- oscillate
- Past tense
- oscillated
- Past participle
- oscillated
- Present participle
- oscillating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- oscillate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are oscillating
- Present perfect
- have/has oscillated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been oscillating
- Past
- oscillated
- Past continuous
- was/were oscillating
- Past perfect
- had oscillated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been oscillating
- Future
- will oscillate
- Future continuous
- will be oscillating
- Future perfect
- will have oscillated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been oscillating
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: oscillate; oscillates; oscillated; oscillated; oscillating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: oscillates.
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