Thus the angle contained between the two planes will perpetually oscillate within certain limits.
The energy which is received does its work in making the electrons in that antenna oscillate back and forth.
So the receiver diaphragm suddenly changes position as the tube starts to oscillate and a listener hears a little click.
If the receiving antenna is tuned to the frequency which the sending station is producing, then the electrons in the receiving antenna oscillate back and forth most widely and there is a maximum current in this circuit.
Adjust the length of the plumb-line until it and the body oscillate together in unison.
June 7th, when the leaf depended vertically, its movements were observed by a mark being placed behind it, and the end of the attached filament was seen to oscillate slowly and slightly from side to side, as well as upwards and downwards.
By an electromagnetic arrangement the holder of the smoked glass plate is made to oscillate to and fro, causing periodic contact with the writer.
Here the plate itself is made to oscillate to-and-fro by eccentric worked by a clock.
For this, either the writer is made to vibrate to and fro, or the recording plate is made to oscillate backwards and forwards.
The sides of the fork are bored to fit freely over the threads of the screws, so that it may oscillate with the motion of the crank.
Oscillating cylinders are fitted to oscillate with the motion of the crank, and the steam-valves are usually contrived to act by this oscillating motion.
The feelings do not so much advance like a river, as oscillate like a pendulum.
Or the feeling may oscillate between these two sensations, just as the sense of time-relation in the picture shown may oscillate between past, present, and future.
Billault phrases it, the pendulum of civilization oscillate from the liberty of individual action to its opposite.
No principles exist, since the pendulum ought to oscillate from one principle to the other, according to the wants of the moment.
The two pendulums oscillate constantly in the inverse sense the one to the other.
The two pendulums oscillateinversely one to the other, and one after the other receives an impulse.
And in every realm, growth and decay, life and death, seem so to intertwine and oscillatethat it is very gratuitous to designate the total process as being one or the other.
The proportions in the different populations of the earth oscillate round these figures without diverging from them more than three units, or five at most.
Hence it appears to oscillate slightly, like a lop-sided fly-wheel whose revolutions have been allowed to die away so that they end in oscillations of small amplitude.
As for the inferior planets (Mercury and Venus) they only appear to oscillate like the bob of a pendulum about the sun, and so it is very obvious that they must be really revolving round it.
The lay is freely suspended to a cross-bar F, attached by rulers, called the swords, to the top of the lateral standards of the loom, so as to oscillate upon it.
If we make transverse sections of hair and examine them under the microscope, we find that the resulting geometrical figures are not all equal: the forms of the sections oscillate between rounded and ellipsoidal forms.
Castelli Romani; while the extreme individual statures, according to my figures, oscillate between 1.
The wire balances itself, and continues to oscillate with noise until the electricities of the two surfaces neutralize each other.
One projection, placed without regard to effect upon such surface, would make the ball jog and oscillate much after the manner that has been described.
It is highly transparent to the luminous rays, which proves that its atoms do not readilyoscillate in the periods which excite vision.
If, then, to the radiation from any source water shows itself eminently or perfectly opaque, we may infer that the atoms whence the radiation emanates oscillate in ultra-red periods.
Some engineers think it advisable to oscillate the wrist pin in the piston bosses, instead of in the connecting rod small end.
In this construction the shorter rod is attached to a boss on the master rod by a short pin to form a hinge and to permit the short rod to oscillateas the conditions dictate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oscillate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
