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A circuit, device, or physical system that generates regular repeated changes.
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- electronic oscillator
- stable oscillator
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The oscillator supplied the pulse that synchronized the displays.
An unstable oscillator made the instrument drift out of tune.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular oscillator; plural oscillators. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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