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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going..
But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before.
In general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating.
When examining work on the history of sociology, however, one finds a more oscillating pattern: disciplinary marginality, followed by greater centrality, followed by a return to the margins.
Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means.
Use oscillating when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oscillating means Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going..
Common synonyms include periodic, periodical, oscillatory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before.
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