Roget's Thesaurus

#314. Oscillation

Nouns

oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse. alternation; coming and going etc. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down. fluctuation; vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605. wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope.

Verbs

oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag. fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down etc. adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate etc. 605; teeter [U.S.]. brandish, shake, flourish.

Adjectives

oscillating etc. v.; oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory, libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile; pendulous.

Adverbs

to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.