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Alternate ways of defining the oscillation (one complete swing) of a pendulum.

One complete to-and-fro movement of a vibrating object or system. For any particular vibration, the time for one oscillation is called its period and the number of oscillations in one second is called its frequency. The maximum displacement of the vibrating object from its rest position is called the amplitude of the oscillation.


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Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.
Slowly the vicious head came floating up, while at every oscillation a fresh burst of shrieks came from the settee.
Heat is but the motion of atoms, a simple oscillation of the particles of a body.
 
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