Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which oscillates.
- noun One of the Oscillatoria.
- noun In machinery, any oscillating machine or part of a machine, as the oscillating shuttle of a sewing-machine, or the mechanism by which a power-hammer is vibrated or tilted.
- noun A motor in which the piston oscillates in the cylinder over a minute range at high speed. In combination with a dynamo it is used to obtain currents of high frequency.
- noun In wireless telegraphy, that part of the transmitting apparatus which produces the electric waves or oscillations. See
wireless telegraphy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Electronics) One that oscillates.
- noun (Mech.) An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
tuned electronic circuit used togenerate acontinuous output waveform - noun cellular automata A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same
orientation andposition , after afinite number ofgenerations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current
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Examples
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The gain factor and coupling of each oscillator is not fixed.
DeLong, Dasgupta, and Stern, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The harmonic oscillator is too simple; very often you can work out what it should do in quantum theory without getting much of a clue as to how to generalize your results to other systems.
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We expect stock to take support and bounce back from current levels which is further supported by short term oscillator stochastic generating buy signal on daily chart.
News Centre@myiris.com India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination 2010
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This was followed by the construction of an 'oscillator' - in which a gene activates its own expression and that of another gene, which, in turn, represses the activating gene
Naturejobs - All Jobs Martin Fussenegger 2010
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She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator, which was a terrifying machine.
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She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator, which was a terrifying machine.
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She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator, which was a terrifying machine.
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She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator, which was a terrifying machine.
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The oscillator was a basic artigrav unit, stripped of its damping circuits and mounted near the primary power generator.
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
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Bill Cara has a very useful trading framework using quality companies and what I'd call oscillator multiple time frame extremes.
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