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/flˌəktʃuˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Fluctuation n.

A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.

A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.

(Med.) The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.

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Etymology of 'Fluctuation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... remains about five months, and continues increasing during the remainder of its period. Such is the general course of its phases. But the mean period above assigned would appear to be subject to a cyclical fluctuation embracing eighty-eight such periods, and having the effect of gradually lengthening and shortening alternately those intervals to the extent of twenty-five days one way and the other. The irregularities in the degree of brightness attained at the ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... him at a definite period before or after puberty.[5] The character is either retained throughout life, or it occasionally recedes or represents an episode on the road to normal development. A periodical fluctuation between the normal and the inverted sexual object has also been observed. Of special interest are those cases in which the libido changes, taking on the character of inversion after a painful experience with the ...

— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud

... extraordinary quantity of the "spurious" liquid. When he says, "The waters have gone over me," he speaks in metaphor, not historically. He was never vanquished by water, and seldom by wine. His energy, or mental power, was indeed subject to fluctuation; no excessive merriment, perhaps, but much depression. "My waking life," he writes, "has much of the confusion, the trouble, and obscure perplexity of an ill dream. In the daytime I stumble upon ...

— Charles Lamb • Barry Cornwall

... exile; a woman of active and eager disposition, with large, executive capacity and ripe experience, shut up almost to idleness; a woman of large benevolence, who had entered on work of peculiar excellence and attractiveness, cut off from all such activities. This, with frequent pain, with fluctuation of hope and discouragement as to the future; and yet there is about her an atmosphere as serene as the Alpine heights that look down upon her, as cheerful as the sunny Alpine pastures with their tinkle of sheep-bell and hum of mountain bee. Her constant thought goes ...

— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam

... the inquisitive gaze of the bystanders; and his companion observing the fluctuation of his countenance, added, as the door was ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

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