0 to change, especially continuously and between one level or thing and another: --
1 to change or vary frequently between one level or thing and another: --
2 if prices, levels, or interest rates fluctuate, they go up and down: --
fluctuate from day to day/month to month/year to year Your cash flow fluctuates from year to year as your portfolio increases or decreases.
fluctuate wildly/significantly/slightly Shares have been fluctuating wildly in a volatile market.
prices/investments/profits fluctuate Traders on the New York Stock Exchange monitored their screens and took a wait-and-see approach as prices fluctuated.
fluctuate with sth Over the past months, retail prices have fluctuated with market conditions.
fluctuate between sth and sth Dividend yields typically fluctuate between 4 per cent and 6 per cent.
Inflation has fluctuated in recent months along with oil prices.
Genetic and environmental effects on morphology and fluctuating asymmetry in nesting barn swallows.
Although prevalence values fluctuated during the study period, they never exceeded 36%.
For example, they mention the relationship between men's physicality and fluctuating asymmetry (sects. 4.4 and 5.2) two factors which they claim are highly correlated.
It fluctuates as a consequence of perturbations, but the system is stable.
The dust particles may possess variable mass, size and shape, and, predominantly, fluctuating charge.
This eliminates the compression or expansion of minor taxa in percentage diagrams when dominant taxa fluctuate.
Frequencies of -s or verb stems fluctuate across all the dialects in which verbal -s is variable.
However, the levels of infection in female and male fish fluctuated in different months but no statistical difference was observed.