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fluctuation

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A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.

A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.

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.

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Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA. Seth Lloyd

New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation. Timothy Levitch

I produce a form, an impression of light, a beauty of tones... The etchings are now full of life, an ecstasy, a dance, a gentle motion and fluctuation in tones. Emil Nolde

The topic that I have attempted to explore is the usefulness of these notions of the engineer, about feeds-back, harmonic components and the like, in application to the analogous problems of economic fluctuation and economic regulation. Arnold Tustin

The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation. Leonard Susskind

Revolutionary periods invariably encompass a huge fluctuation of political consciousness that can never be registered accurately by any referendum. Tariq Ali

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