oscillatory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: os=cil=la=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

oscillatory, a. [Cf. F. oscillatoire. See Oscillate.].

 Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

oscillatory

alternate, beating, circling, cyclic, epochal, even, every other, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, harmonic, intermittent, isochronal, libratory, measured, metronomic, nutational, oscillating, pendular, pendulating, pendulous, periodic, periodical, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, resonant, rhythmic, rotary, seasonal, serial, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, steady, undulant, undulatory, vacillating, vacillatory, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavelike, wavering, wheeling, wobbly

ROGET THESAURUS

oscillatory

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.