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Definition of Oscillations
1. oscillation [n] - See also: oscillation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscillations
Literary usage of Oscillations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with by Heinrich Hertz, Daniel Evan Jones (1893)
"THE electric oscillations of open induction-coils have a period of vibration ...
Theory admits the possibility of oscillations even more rapid than these in ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"The oscillations are sustained, logarithmically damped or aperiodic, according
as the time coefficient p is real, complex, or pure imaginary. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"BASKERVILLE COLLEGE OF THE CITY or NEW YORK, November 12, 1909 DEMONSTRATIONS OF
ELECTRICAL oscillations THE production of high-frequency oscillations from ..."
4. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1905)
"Free oscillations. 308. THE difference between free and forced vibrations will be
... The oscillations of such a system are called its free oscillations. ..."
5. Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1915)
"oscillations arise because of the self-inductance of the circuit, by reason of
which (Art. 501) the current once set up tends to go on. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"If the attempt were made to superpose vibrations corresponding to voice waves
upon these intermittent or broken oscillations, it is evident that portions of ..."
7. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1905)
"Hence the jar discharges, and electrical oscillations are set up. A second jar
B, of the same capacity as the first, is placed in the neighbourhood, ..."
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