fluctuator

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English

Noun

fluctuator (plural fluctuators)

  1. One who or that which fluctuates.
    • 1988, Susanne Rockne Morris, Budget Cutback: An Empirical Test of Budgeting Theory in Conditions of Fiscal Stress, page 130:
      Thus, although this department was among the more volatile fluctuators between regular and cutback budgets, the overall effect on the department suggests that growth was nearly static.
  2. (physics) A quantum system in which an electric charge moves back and forward between two states that are separated by an energy barrier

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Latin

Verb

flūctuātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of flūctuō