0 past simple and past participle of oscillate
1 to move repeatedly from one position to another:
Then, almost on a daily basis, they oscillated between the old and new homesteads.
The cylinder was attached at its upper end to a slider, which was oscillated along a rail by means of a scotch yoke mechanism.
During further follow-up of either treatment schedule, protein levels oscillated around values similar to those in the control group at corresponding days.
Definitions have oscillated between biological, most recently genetic, and social markers of identity.
The abdomens of both the male and the female oscillated abruptly dorso-ventrally.
For women, ° this figure oscillated between 10 and 15 per cent.
Representing some 20 per cent of the electorate, low-income workers' (those making less than $25,000) oscillated voting between the two parties through the 1980s.
Similar to the previous movement, the potential walls are oscillated, but again this has little effect on the system because of the high viscosity.
