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Fluctuation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLUCTUA'TION, n. [L. fluctuatio.]
1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as the fluctuations of the sea.
2. A wavering; unsteadiness; as fluctuations of opinion.
3. A rising and falling suddenly; as fluctuations of prices or of the funds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"
2: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change [syn: variation, fluctuation]
3: the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations" [syn: fluctuation, wavering]

Merriam Webster's

noun see fluctuate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fluctuation Fluc`tu*a"tion, n. [L. fluctuatio; cf. F. fluctuation.] 1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea. 2. A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices. 3. (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. --Dunglison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see fluctuate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Oscillation, undulation, rolling, unsteadiness, rising and falling. 2. Variation, change, shifting, rise and fall. 3. Wavering, inconstancy, vacillation, hesitation.

Moby Thesaurus

alternation, arrhythmia, asking price, bearish prices, bid price, book value, brokenness, bullish prices, call price, capriciousness, choppiness, closing price, decline, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, eccentricity, equivocation, erraticness, face value, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fixed price, flash price, flurry, flutter, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, harmonic motion, high, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, issue par, issue price, jerkiness, libration, low, market price, market value, nominal value, nonuniformity, nutation, offering price, opening price, oscillation, par, par value, parity, patchiness, pendulation, periodicity, price, put price, quotation, quoted price, rally, resonance, resonance frequency, roughness, seesawing, settling price, shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stated value, swings, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacillation, variability, variation, vibrancy, vibratility, vibration, vicissitude, wavering, whimsicality, wobble, wobbling