Oscillating - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: oscillatingOscillancy
The state of oscillating a seesaw kind of motion...
Oscillating
That oscillates vibrating swinging...
Oscillative
Tending to oscillate vibratory...
oscillator
One that oscillates...
Cradle
A bed or cot for a baby oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots hence the place of origin or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence as a cradle of crime the cradle of liberty...
Deadbeat
Making a beat without recoil giving indications by a single beat or excursion said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation...
Hypnotism
A form of sleep or trance in some respects resembling somnambulism but brought on by artificial means in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers and an unusual activity of others especially a heightened susceptibility to suggestion It is induced by an action upon the nerves through the medium of the senses by causing the subject to gaze steadily at a very bright object held before the eyes or on an oscillating object or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body usually accompanied by the speaking of the hypnotist in quiet soothing tones Called also hypnosis...
Isochronal
Uniform in time of equal time performed in equal times recurring at regular intervals as isochronal vibrations or oscillations...
Knife edge
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle and resting on a smooth surface serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum scale beam or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction...
magnetron
a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields used mainly in microwave oscillators...
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