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fluctuation

[ fluhk-choo-ey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. continual change from one point or condition to another.
  2. wavelike motion; undulation.
  3. Genetics. a body variation due to environmental factors and not inherited.


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Other Words From

  • nonfluc·tu·ation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fluctuation1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin fluctuātiōn- (stem of fluctuātiō ) a fluctuation, wavering. See fluctuate, -ion

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Example Sentences

Side effects may include recession, job contraction, 401(k) bruising, recurrent Dow fluctuation, and IRA bleeding.

With each wobbly, distorted bass riff and womp-womp-womp robotic fluctuation, bodies explode in epileptic fits.

That kind of sheer fluctuation in itself introduces systemic risk.

One disadvantage of this system was the fluctuation of the value of the tobacco, based upon the law of supply and demand.

Her religion was a deep, smooth, current without fluctuation.

Fluctuation in water level seemed especially important in determining distribution of fishes in the area studied.

Every week new price lists were prepared so as to cover new fluctuation of cost to the retailer.

Who has developed the currents, those regular fluctuation of the abysses into which we never descend?

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