0 to be uncertain what to do, or to change often between two opinions:
1 to be unable to decide something and esp. to continue to change opinions:
2 if prices, rates, etc. vacillate, they keep rising and falling by small amounts:
3 to be uncertain about what to do or to keep changing your opinion about something:
However, he fails to see that even in a silent film the visual language of cinema can be equally vacillating and ambiguous.
The creaking of a door, the cracking of the tone produced by a badly handled bow on a string instrument are examples of vacillating sounds.
Overall, political parties appear to vacillate between officeand policy-seeking motivations.
Social policy itself was increasingly vacillating between seeing older people as dependent social casualties, and seeing them as individuals capable of exercising choice.
Not only did he vacillate about the nature of the reality of race.
Interestingly, the extremes of the diagram meet: vacillating sound objects and accumulations can be very similar.
From there on we proceed to increased spectral differentiation, inclusion of elements of contrasting sound spectrum, eventually spectral fluctuations with increasingly irregular pulse, until we arrive at the vacillating object.
Furthermore, they may apply to some of the same sets of verbs and arguments, so that the child will vacillate between competing ways of saying the same thing.