The process of oscillating between states.

Dutch: trilling

physics A regular periodic variation in value about a mean.

synonym: vibration.

Roget 314: oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse.    alternation; coming and going etc. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down.    fluctuation; vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605.    wave, vibratiuncle^†, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan^†, loggan^†, rocking-stone, vibroscope^†.    ... show more

Dutch: oscillatie, trilling
Polish: oscylacja, drganie

A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.

synonym: cycle.

Roget 138: periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation etc. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity^†.    bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say.    anniversary, jubilee, centenary.    catamenia^†, courses, menses, menstrual flux.    [Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday &c.; months of the year; January &c.; feast, fast &c.; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day &c.; Allhallows^†, Allhallowmas^†, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile^†, Candlemas^†, Dewali, groundhog day [U.S.], Halloween, Hallowmas^†, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day [U.S.], St.    Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide.    punctuality, regularity, steadiness.    ... show more

Dutch: circulatie, cyclus, kringloop, kringloopproces, omloop, rondgang, roulatie