Definitions of fluctuate

1. To float backward and forward; to waver; to rise and fall; to be unsteady.

2. To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.

3. To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.

4. To roll to and fro, as a wave; rise and fall, as the stock market; be undecided or wavering.

5. To float backward and forward; to roll hither and thither; to be irresolute.

6. To flow backward and forward; be irresolute.

7. be unstable; have ups and downs; " The stock market fluctuates"

8. To cause to fluctuate.

9. To move, as a wave; to move, now in one direction then in another; to be irresolute or wavering; to rise and fall, as prices.

10. Fluctuation.