Both Uses
fluctuate
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Temperature ten minutes ago was 100.8—it's been fluctuating for several hours.†
Chpt 11. *fluctuating = alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity
- "Comrade Melekhin," Surzpoi called, "I am showing pressure fluctuation on the main loop, number six gauge."†
Chpt 13.fluctuation = the process of alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity; or the amount of such a change
Definitions:
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(1)
(fluctuate) to alternately increase and decrease in quantity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)