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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... rate of exchange has developed among the masses of the people, who turn to the financial column of the morning paper as Westerners do to football news or baseball results. There is considerable fluctuation in the values, and it is no doubt possible to make a living by speculation alone, and many people do so. In the banks are, therefore, crowds, both of speculators and of people who have just crossed the frontier and must get their ...

— Europe--Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham

... Ignatius appear in three forms or recensions, a longer Greek recension forming a group of thirteen epistles, a short Greek of seven epistles, and a still shorter Syriac version of only three. After much fluctuation of opinion, due to the general reconstruction of the history of the whole period, which has gone through various marked changes, the opinion of scholars has been steadily settling upon the short ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... discontinuance in well-doing. James was led by the Spirit of God to write that the unstable and unbelieving man is like the "wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." There are two motions of the waves—one up and down, which we call undulation, the other to and fro, which we call fluctuation. How appropriately both are referred to—"tossed" up and down, "driven" to and fro! The double-minded man lacks steadiness in both respects: his faith has no uniformity of experience, for he is now at the crest of the wave and now in the trough of the sea; it has no uniformity of progress, ...

— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson

... not omit any of the original collection shows his unpedantic attitude toward the kind of studies which he was encouraging by the republication of this series. He says: "When the variety of literary pursuits, and the fluctuation of fashionable study is considered, it may seem rash to pass a hasty sentence of exclusion, even upon the dullest and most despised of the essays which this ample collection offers to the public. There may be among the learned, even now, individuals to whom the ...

— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball

... during the month the average fluctuation of the barometer at Cape Sheridan amounts to 1.2 inches, being greatest in February and least ...

— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary

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