Dictionary Definition
fluctuation
Noun
1 a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the
sea"
2 an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of
change [syn: variation]
3 the quality of being unsteady and subject to
fluctuations; "he kept a record of price fluctuations" [syn:
wavering]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that
direction.
- the fluctuations of the sea
- A wavering; unsteadiness.
- fluctuations of opinion
- fluctuations of prices
- fluctuations of opinion
- The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artificial cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
Translations
wavelike motion
- Finnish: heilahtelu, huojunta
wavering; unsteadiness
- Czech: fluktuace
- Danish: fluktuation
- Dutch: schommeling
- Finnish: heilahtelu, huojunta, vaihtelu
- German: Schwankung , Fluktuation
French
Noun
fr-noun fSynonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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