The bell-rope swayed to and fro with a mimic oscillation; a sort of admonitory premonition of what it must shortly do ran up its fibres.

His face was as expressionless as ever, but a slight oscillation of the Court Bible in his right hand as he was sworn indicated that his nerves were not so calm as he strove to appear.

His oscillation between the reformed and the Romish church can hardly have had other cause than a vacillating conviction.

pardon in me The oscillation of a mind Unsteadfast, and that cannot find Its centre of rest and harmony!

Irresolution N. irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination^; unsettlement; uncertainty &c 475; demur, suspense; hesitating &c v., hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness &c 149; fluctuation; alternation &c (oscillation) 314; caprice &c 608. fickleness, levity, legerete

Centres of Gravity, Gyration, and Oscillation.

CENTRES OF GRAVITY, GYRATION, AND OSCILLATION.

Q.What is the centre of oscillation?

A.The centre of oscillation is a point in a pendulum or any swinging body, such, that if all the matter of the body were to be collected into that point, the velocity of its vibration would remain unaffected.

The centre of oscillation is always in a line passing through the centre of suspension and the centre of gravity.

Q.By what circumstance is the velocity of vibration of a pendulous body determined? A.By the length of the suspending rod only, or, more correctly, by the distance between the centre of suspension and the centre of oscillation.

Oscillation, centre of.

Sometimes he felt confidence, and at other times despair; and of course he had the consolation, which belongs to all litigants, that the opposite party was undergoing the same process of oscillation.

Nature a system of regularly moved particles of mass; all that takes place mechanical movement, viz., the combination, separation, dislocation, oscillation of bodies and corpuscles; mathematics the organon of natural science!

Heeling up to a gentleman who sat near me, he glared stupidly at him from beneath a broad-brimmed hat, demanding a seat mutely, but with such eloquence of oscillation that no words were necessary.

Ages of oscillation seemed to pass.

So days flowed away in increasing oscillation between hope and suffering, between tears and happinessbetween purposes, preparations, and despair.

The period of oscillation will differ widely in the two cases, as may be shown by suspending the cartridges by strings round their middle so that they shall hang horizontally, and then by a slight tap making them spin to and fro round the string as an axis.

There are at least four poems of hers that show this entirely natural oscillation.

The news-columns would have been monopolized by foreign politics, and in the cafes he would have heard the latest oscillation in the international balance of power canvassed with the same intense and minute interest that Englishmen in a railway-carriage would have been devoting to Old Age Pensions, National Health Insurance, or Land Valuation.

; "On Oscillation and Waves in an Adynamic Gyrostatic System" (title only), Proc.

The horizontal and vertical oscillation of the bridge, which were carefully observed and graphically recorded by special instruments, were very slight.

By regulating the needles properly, a greater degree of sensitiveness may be attained, but then the duration of the needles' oscillation becomes too great.

The sensitiveness of the instrument is sufficiently great to allow it to be used in many cases, even with a moderate duration of oscillation.

I mean their constant oscillation between atheism and Roman Catholicism.