oscillation

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When driven to self-oscillation, the filter outputs a sine oscillation (a sine wave).

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  1. noun The act of oscillating.
  2. noun The state of being oscillated.
  3. noun A single oscillatory cycle.

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  • Obviously, what he saw as an oscillation was a steady light to them. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • This very oscillation is the one used in cesium atomic clocks. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 05 - May 2000
  • Maybe the oscillation is a carrier, a way of several pieces of information on one communication pathway. —  Omni: January 1993
  • Perhaps this oscillation is used to mark information so that two things in different places in the brain are oscillating in the same way because they represent different parts of the same object. —  Omni: January 1993
  • It would be astonishing if oscillation were a mere epiphenomenon, but there's not yet a definitive statement about what it does in processing. —  Omni: January 1993
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  1. = French oscillation = Sp oscilacion = Portuguese oscillação = Italian oscillazione, from Latin oscillatio(n-), a swinging, from oscillare, swing: see oscillate.
 

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