"fluctuation" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: undulation, wave - (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
is a type of: alteration, change, modification - an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
subtypes:
- vicissitude - a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
- allomerism - (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form
- departure, deviation, difference, divergence - a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
- permutation, replacement, substitution, switch, transposition - an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- business cycle, trade cycle - recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline
- daily variation - fluctuations that occur between one day and the next
- diurnal variation - fluctuations that occur during each day
- tide - something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
same as: variation
is a type of: irregularity, unregularity - not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals

subtypes: scintillation - the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight

same as: wavering