Dictionary Entry
fluctuate
fluctuate is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
- 2intransitive verb
To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.
- 4verb
be unstable
"The stock market fluctuates"
- 5verb
move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
"the line on the monitor vacillated"
- 6verb
cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
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