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[syn: oscillatory, oscillating]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Oscillatory \Os"cil*la*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. oscillatoire. See
Oscillate.]
Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like
a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory
motion.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
oscillatory
adj 1: having periodic vibrations [syn: oscillatory,
oscillating]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "oscillatory":
alternate, beating, circling, cyclic, epochal, even, every other,
fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, harmonic, intermittent,
isochronal, libratory, measured, metronomic, nutational,
oscillating, pendular, pendulating, pendulous, periodic,
periodical, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, resonant,
rhythmic, rotary, seasonal, serial, shilly-shally,
shilly-shallying, steady, undulant, undulatory, vacillating,
vacillatory, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavelike, wavering,
wheeling, wobbly