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oscillator - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun oscillates. noun Oscillatoria. noun machinery , any oscillating machine or part of a machine, as the oscillating shuttle of a sewing-machine, or the mechanism by which a power-hammer is vibrated or tilted.noun noun wireless telegraphy , that part of the transmitting apparatus which produces the electric waves or oscillations. See wireless telegraphy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Electronics) One that oscillates.noun (Mech.) An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun tuned electronic circuit used to generate a continuous output waveform noun cellular automata A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position , after a finite number of generations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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The gain factor and coupling of each oscillator is not fixed.
DeLong, Dasgupta, and Stern, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
The harmonic oscillator is too simple; very often you can work out what it should do in quantum theory without getting much of a clue as to how to generalize your results to other systems.
Richard P. Feynman - Nobel Lecture 1972
We expect stock to take support and bounce back from current levels which is further supported by short term oscillator stochastic generating buy signal on daily chart.
News Centre@myiris.com India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination 2010
This was followed by the construction of an 'oscillator ' - in which a gene activates its own expression and that of another gene, which, in turn, represses the activating gene
Naturejobs - All Jobs Martin Fussenegger 2010
She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator , which was a terrifying machine.
Humor Helped Author Cope With High-Risk Birth 2010
She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator , which was a terrifying machine.
Humor Helped Author Cope With High-Risk Birth 2010
She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator , which was a terrifying machine.
Humor Helped Author Cope With High-Risk Birth 2010
She was very sick and was put on a different ventilator, called the oscillator , which was a terrifying machine.
Humor Helped Author Cope With High-Risk Birth 2010
The oscillator was a basic artigrav unit, stripped of its damping circuits and mounted near the primary power generator.
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
Bill Cara has a very useful trading framework using quality companies and what I'd call oscillator multiple time frame extremes.
Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory RPS 2010
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