Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 9 compound words that contain oscillation. The most common are listed below. Open oscillation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- Southern OscillationThe atmospheric component of El Niño; an oscillation in surface air pressure between the tropical eastern and the western Pacific Ocean waters.
- Madden-Julian oscillationThe largest element of the intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere: a large-scale coupling between atmospheric circulation and tropical deep convection, manifesting itself most clearly as anomalous rainfall.
- pogo oscillationA dangerous oscillation in the fuel or structure of a rocket along the long axis induced by a surge in thrust.
- Bloch oscillationIn solid-state physics, the oscillation of a particle (e.g. an electron) confined in a periodic potential when a constant force is acting on it.
- North Atlantic OscillationThe difference in pressure between the Azores High and the Icelandic Low, which changes periodically and controls the strength of the Westerlies. Usually abbreviated NAO.
- quasi-biennial oscillationA quasiperiodic oscillation of the equatorial zonal wind between easterlies and westerlies in the tropical stratosphere
- baryon acoustic oscillationone of the regular periodic fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter of the universe
- Shubnikov-de Haas oscillationSynonym of Shubnikov-de Haas effect: An oscillation in the conductivity of a material that occurs at low temperatures in the presence of very intense magnetic fields.
Compound words 9
- eigenoscillationoscillation at an eigenfrequency
- magnetoscillationMisspelling of magnetooscillation: An oscillation of a magnetic field.
- oscillationlikeResembling oscillation; moving back and forth, or appearing to do so.
- superoscillationThe phenomenon by which a globally band-limited signal can contain local segments that oscillate faster than its fastest Fourier components.
- equioscillationAn oscillation of equal to other oscillations amplitude or phase.
- magnetooscillationAn oscillation of a magnetic field.
- multioscillationInvolving more than one oscillation.
- oscillationalRelating to oscillation.
- oscillationlessWithout oscillation.