Usually means: Variation in magnitude, position, or value.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluctuation: Merriam-Webster
  2. fluctuation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fluctuation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fluctuation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fluctuation, fluctuation: Wordnik
  6. fluctuation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fluctuation: Wiktionary
  8. fluctuation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fluctuation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fluctuation: Dictionary.com
  11. fluctuation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. fluctuation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Fluctuation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Fluctuation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fluctuation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fluctuation: Rhymezone
  17. Fluctuation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fluctuation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. fluctuation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fluctuation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fluctuation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. fluctuation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  2. fluctuation: Legal dictionary
  3. Fluctuation: Financial dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fluctuation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. fluctuation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluctuation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. fluctuation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fluctuation: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
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Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See fluctuate as well.)

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noun:  A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.
noun:  A wavering; unsteadiness.
noun:  In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.

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