fluctuation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fluc=tu=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

fluctuation, n. [L. fluctuatio; cf. F. fluctuation.].

•  A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.  [1913 Webster]
•  A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

fluctuation

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

ROGET THESAURUS

fluctuation

Irresolution

N irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision, indetermination, undetermination, unsettlement, uncertainty, demur, suspense, hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness, fluctuation, alternation, caprice, fickleness, levity, legerete, pliancy, weakness, timidity, cowardice, half measures, waverer, ass between two bundles of hay, shuttlecock, butterfly, wimp, doughface, irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted, undecided, unresolved, undetermined, shilly-shally, fidgety, tremulous, hesitating, off one's balance, at a loss, vacillating, unsteady, unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast, capricious, volatile, frothy, light, lightsome, light-minded, giddy, fast and loose, weak, feeble-minded, frail, timid, wimpish, wimpy, cowardly, dough-faced, facile, pliant, unable to say 'no', easy-going revocable, reversible, irresolutely, irresolved, irresolvedly, in faltering accents, off and on, from pillar to post, seesaw, Int, how happy could I be with either!.

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.

Oscillation

N oscillation, vibration, libration, motion of a pendulum, nutation, undulation, pulsation, pulse, alternation, coming and going, ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down, fluctuation, vacillation, wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge, logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope, oscillating, oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory, libratory, rectilinear, vibratory, vibratile, pendulous, to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.