different between gyration vs oscillation
gyration
English
Etymology
gyrate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?a???e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
gyration (plural gyrations)
- The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)
- If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)
- One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
- Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.
See also
- gyrification
Anagrams
- organity
gyration From the web:
- gyration meaning
- what does gyrating mean
- what is gyration in physics
- what is gyration motion
- what is gyration length
- what does gyrations
- what is gyration
- what is gyration in biology
oscillation
English
Etymology
From French oscillation, from Latin oscillatioMorphologically oscillate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
oscillation (countable and uncountable, plural oscillations)
- the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
- a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
- a single such cycle
- (mathematics) (of a function) defined for each point in the domain of the function by , and describes the difference (possibly ?) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.
Hyponyms
Related terms
- oscillate
Translations
Anagrams
- colonialist
French
Etymology
From Latin ?scill?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
oscillation f (plural oscillations)
- oscillation
Related terms
- osciller
Further reading
- “oscillation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
oscillera +? -tion, from English or French oscillation or German Oszillation, used in Swedish since 1805.
Noun
oscillation c
- an oscillation, a vibration, a shaking, a movement back and forth
- an oscillation, a periodic variation
- one cycle of such a variation
Declension
Synonyms
- dallring
- darrning
- gungning
- skakning
- svängning
- vibration
Related terms
- eteroscillation
- oscillationspunkt
- oscillationsrörelse
- oscillationstid
- oscillator
- oscillograf
- oscillogram
- oscilloskop
References
- oscillation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- oscillation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
oscillation From the web:
- what oscillation means
- what oscillation in physics
- what oscillations producing a light wave are
- what oscillations about equilibrium
- oscillation what does mean
- oscillatory motion
- what is oscillation in sound
- what is oscillation in science
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