FLUCTUATION
\flˌʌkt͡ʃuːˈe͡ɪʃən], \flˌʌktʃuːˈeɪʃən], \f_l_ˌʌ_k_tʃ_uː_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of FLUCTUATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
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A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
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The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
By Oddity Software
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A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
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A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
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The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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A rising and falling, like a wave; motion hither and thither; agitation; unsteadiness, as the fluctuation of prices, of the stock market, of opinion, etc.; in med. the perceptible motion given to pus or other fluids by pressure or percussion.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The undulation of a fluid collected in any natural or artificial cavity, which is felt by pressure or by percussion, properly practised -peripheric fluctuation. In ascites, the fluctuation is felt by one of the hands being applied to one side of the abdomen whilst the other side is struck with the other hand. In abscesses, fluctuation is perceived by pressing on the tumour, with one or two fingers alternately, on opposite points.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A wavelike movement, communicated to pent-up liquid by tapping upon some point of the parts overlying it, felt in the form of an impulse by the fingers held against another point. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of fluctuating; unsteadiness; a sudden rise or fall;—undulation.
By Thomas Sheridan
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