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fluctuation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluctuati?nem, accusative singular of fluctuati?, from fluctu?, from fluctus.Morphologically fluctuate +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fl?kt?u??e???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

fluctuation (countable and uncountable, plural fluctuations)

  1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
    the fluctuations of the sea
  2. A wavering; unsteadiness.
    fluctuations of opinion
    fluctuations of prices
  3. In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.

Related terms

  • fluctuate

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluctuati?nem, accusative singular of fluctuati?, from fluctu?, from fluctus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fluctuation f (plural fluctuations)

  1. fluctuation

Related terms

  • fluctuer

Further reading

  • “fluctuation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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distraction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French distraction, from Latin distractio.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?t?æk?(?)n/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /d?s?t?æk??n/, /d?-/
  • Rhymes: -æk??n
  • Hyphenation: dis?tract?ion

Noun

distraction (countable and uncountable, plural distractions)

  1. Something that distracts.
  2. The process of being distracted.
  3. Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
      It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
  4. Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
    • 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory
      [] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
  5. (medicine, archaic) Traction so exerted as to separate surfaces normally opposed.

Derived terms

  • distracter
  • distractee

Translations

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “distraction”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

  • adstriction

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distracti?, distracti?nem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.t?ak.sj??/

Noun

distraction f (plural distractions)

  1. distraction
  2. entertainment

Related terms

  • distraire

Further reading

  • “distraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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