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Definition: Fluctuating |
FluctuatingAdjective1. Having unpredictable ups and downs; "fluctuating prices". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fluctuating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: FluctuatingSynonym: inconstant. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fluctuating |
| English words defined with "fluctuating": cost ♦ monetary value ♦ oscillograph ♦ price ♦ Swagbelly ♦ wobbling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fluctuating": Ague ♦ BAF ♦ Carrying capacity ♦ fluctuating power of a polyphase system ♦ hot-wire anemometer, Hut ♦ Magnetic Pumping, microwave turbulence, money market deposit account ♦ optical turbulence, organi primitivi di v.Baer ♦ Partnership ♦ regulated voltage ♦ stripped mortgage-backed securities ♦ Weather. (references) |
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 | Waver; changeful; fluctuating; fluid; inconstant; indecisive; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; kaleidoscopic; mercurial; mobile; movable; mutable; permutable; protean; restless; reversible; revocable; shifting; skittish; spasmodic; transformable; tra. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The growing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You will be able to see, but you will experience fluctuating degrees of blurred vision during the rest of the procedure. (references) | |
Marijuana decreases blood pressure and may interact with other risk factors, such as hypertension and cigarette smoking, to cause rapidly fluctuating blood pressure levels, damaging blood vessels. (references) | ||
Under investigation are additional controlled-release formulas of Parkinson's disease drugs and implantable pumps that give a continuous supply of levodopa to help patients who have problems with fluctuating levels of response. (references) | ||
Business | However, the highly fluctuating nature of the Argentine steel market precludes accurate forecasting. (references) | |
Locals have better access to end-users as well as a deeper understanding of the logic of a fluctuating and unstable business environment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Afghanistan | Both are highly inflated with rates fluctuating frequently. (references) |
India | The political map of ancient and medieval India was made up of myriad kingdoms with fluctuating boundaries. (references) | |
Indonesia | Year-on-year comparisons of domestic approvals after the Rupiah began to decline in mid-1997 are difficult because of the currency's fluctuating value. (references) | |
Human Rights | Maldives | The country's prison was destroyed by fire in 1999. Following the fire, the Government transferred prisoners to a temporary facility, which houses a fluctuating population of approximately 300 inmates. (references) |
Political Economy | Syria | However, in recent years, diminished foreign aid, drought, fluctuating prices for oil and agricultural commodities, and regional recession have hurt the economy. (references) |
Ghana | The economy grew at a rate of 3.7 percent, up from 3.0 percent in 2000, due to the fall in the world price of gold and cocoa and the fluctuating price of crude oil. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fluctuating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 56.52% of the time. "Fluctuating" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 56.52% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 43.48% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fluctuating": fluctuating firm price ♦ fluctuating noise ♦ fluctuating power ♦ fluctuating power of a polyphase system ♦ fluctuating stress. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fluctuating": fluctuating-pressure. | |
Ending with "fluctuating": ever-fluctuating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fluctuating blood pressure | 18 |
bp fluctuating | 5 |
fluctuating hematocrit | 3 |
asymmetry fluctuating graham | 3 |
asymmetry fluctuating | 2 |
fluctuating prostate psa result test | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fluctuating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, erratic, fitful, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, liquid, mobile, protean, shifting, undecided, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile, volatile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 动摇 (destabilise, destabilize, fluctuate, Fluctuated, shake-up). (various references) | |
Czech | rozkolísaný, promìnlivý (changeable, changing, mobile, mutable, uncertain, variable, various), kolísavý (erratic, jumpy, unstable, wavering). (various references) | |
Danish | flydende kurs (fluctuating rate), fluktuerende støj (fluctuating noise), fluktuerede spaendinger (fluctuating stress), vekseltrykimprægnering (alternating-pressure process, fluctuating-pressure process, oscillating-pressure process), vekselpaavirkninger (alternating stresses, fluctuating stresses, reparated stresses), T-tak (fluctuating repolarization), styrke ved svingende materialespænding (resistance to fluctuating stresses), repolariseringsbølge (fluctuating repolarization). (various references) | |
Dutch | fluctuerend geluid (fluctuating noise), wisseldrukproces (alternating-pressure process, fluctuating-pressure process, oscillating-pressure process), wisselbelastingen (alternating stresses, fluctuating stresses, reparated stresses), sterkte bij wisselende belasting (resistance to fluctuating stresses), repolarisatie (fluctuating repolarization, repolarization), golfspanning (fluctuating stress). (various references) | |
Finnish | yli-ja alipainevaihteluprosessi (alternating-pressure process, fluctuating-pressure process, oscillating-pressure process), aaltoileva kuormitus (fluctuating stress). (various references) | |
French | taux fluctuant (fluctuating rate), résistance aux efforts ondulés (resistance to fluctuating stresses), puissance fluctuante d'un système polyphasé (fluctuating power of a polyphase system), puissance fluctuante (fluctuating power), procédé par pression oscillante répétée (fluctuating-pressure process), procédé par pression et vide répétés (fluctuating-pressure process), prix ferme actualisable (fluctuating firm price), oscillation de la repolarisation (fluctuating repolarization), efforts alternés (fluctuating stresses), contrainte ondulée (fluctuating stress), bruit fluctuant (fluctuating noise), attention fluctuante (fluctuating attention), écoulement pulsatoire fluctuant (fluctuating pulsating flow, random pulsating flow), écoulement pulsatoire aléatoire (fluctuating pulsating flow, random pulsating flow). (various references) | |
German | schwankend (faltering, fickle, shakily, staggering, swaying, unsteady, vacillating). (various references) | |
Greek | κυμαινόμενο επιτόκιο (fluctuating rate), εναλλασσόμενες δυνάμεις (alternating stresses, fluctuating stresses, reparated stresses), αντοχή σε κυμαινόμενες τάσεις (resistance to fluctuating stresses), αυξομειούμενος θόρυβος (fluctuating noise), διακύμανσις της επαναπολώσεως του φωτός (fluctuating repolarization), διακυμαινόμενη τάση (fluctuating stress). (various references) | |
Italian | fluttuante (floating), variàbile (changeable, variable), oscillante (oscillating). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 一進一退 (ebb and flow, now advancing and now retreating, seesawing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いっしんいったい (ebb and flow, now advancing and now retreating, seesawing). (various references) | |
Korean | 변동. (various references) | |
Manx | lheaystagh, leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation), kirkinagh (fluctuate, inconstant, waverer, wavering), goll neese sheese, eddyr daa choyrle (undecided, vacillating). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uctuatingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | processo por pressão oscilante (alternating-pressure process, fluctuating-pressure process, oscillating-pressure process), onda T (fluctuating repolarization), onda de repolarização (fluctuating repolarization), esforços alternados (alternating stresses, fluctuating stresses, reparated stresses). (various references) | |
Romanian | fluctuant (vacillating, varying), variabil (changeable, choppy, floating, mutable, uncertain, uneven, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variably, variant, varying). (various references) | |
Russian | колебаться (fluctuate, oscillate, vacillate, waver, whiffle). (various references) | |
Spanish | mutable (changeable, variable). (various references) | |
Swedish | vankelmodig. (various references) | |
Turkish | kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), inip çıkan (swinging, undulant, yo-yo), dalgalanan (floating, flying, surging, surgy, undulant, undulating), bocalayan (vacillating, wavering). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Fluctuating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fluctating, fluctuaring, fluctuatingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fluctuating" (pronounced flu"kkhuwā'ting) |
| 7 | -kh u w ā' t i ng | accentuating, perpetuating. |
| 6 | -u w ā' t i ng | evacuating, graduating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accelerating, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, formulating, frustrating, generating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-g-i-l-n-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: fluctuant, untactful. | |
-3 letters: anticult, cuttling, faulting, flatting. | |
-4 letters: antiflu, catling, catting, cingula, cutting, fatling, fatting, fluting, gainful, lunatic, tactful, talcing, tauting, tufting. | |
-5 letters: acting, canful, catgut, catlin, cluing, facing, fating, flaunt, fungal, fungic, glucan, incult, ingulf, intact, lacing, lattin, lingua, luting, nilgau, tincal, tinful, tunica, uncial, ungual, ungula. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-g-i-l-n-t-t-u-u" | |
+4 letters: ultracentrifuge. | |
+5 letters: ultracentrifugal, ultracentrifuged, ultracentrifuges. | |
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