Usually means: Low points between wave peaks.
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  1. troughs: Merriam-Webster
  2. troughs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. troughs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Trough's, Troughs, troughs: Wordnik
  5. troughs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. troughs: Wiktionary
  7. troughs: Dictionary.com
  8. troughs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. troughs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. troughs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. troughs: Encyclopedia

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  1. troughs: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Trough)

noun:  A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
noun:  Any similarly shaped container.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
noun:  A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
noun:  (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
noun:  (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
noun:  (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
noun:  A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
noun:  (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
noun:  (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
verb:  To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of trough [A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.]
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