'Fluctuation' definitions:
Definition of 'fluctuation'
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Definition of 'Fluctuation'
From: GCIDE
- Fluctuation \Fluc`tu*a"tion\, n. [L. fluctuatio; cf. F. fluctuation.]
- 1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Med.) 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. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fluctuation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternation,
- arrhythmia,
- asking price,
- bearish prices,
- bid price,
- book value,
- brokenness,
- bullish prices,
- call price,
- capriciousness,
- choppiness,
- closing price,
- decline,
- desultoriness,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- eccentricity,
- equivocation,
- erraticness,
- face value,
- fibrillation,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- fixed price,
- flash price,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- frequency,
- frequency band,
- frequency spectrum,
- harmonic motion,
- high,
- inconstancy,
- intermittence,
- irregularity,
- issue par,
- issue price,
- jerkiness,
- libration,
- low,
- market price,
- market value,
- nominal value,
- nonuniformity,
- nutation,
- offering price,
- opening price,
- oscillation,
- par,
- par value,
- parity,
- patchiness,
- pendulation,
- periodicity,
- price,
- put price,
- quotation,
- quoted price,
- rally,
- resonance,
- resonance frequency,
- roughness,
- seesawing,
- settling price,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- spasticity,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- stated value,
- swings,
- teeter-tottering,
- teetering,
- tottering,
- uncertainty,
- unevenness,
- unmethodicalness,
- unpredictability,
- unsteadiness,
- unsystematicness,
- vacillation,
- variability,
- variation,
- vibrancy,
- vibratility,
- vibration,
- vicissitude,
- wavering,
- whimsicality,
- wobble,
- wobbling