fluctuations
Rising and falling
Fluctuations are irregular rises and falls in level, amount, or intensity.
Stock prices experience daily fluctuations.
Body weight shows natural fluctuations.
The fluctuations in her mood made her hard to work with.
The word implies movement within a range rather than a steady trend in one direction—variation around some norm or average.
Rapid, unpredictable changeability
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
- variabilityTendency to change
- irregularityDeparture from standard
inconsistency · unsteadiness · turbulence · flux · imbalance · precariousness · fickleness · capriciousness
Spread around the mean
- deviationDeparture from expected path
- dispersionScattering across space
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
- discrepancyDifference between expected and actual
variability · range · spread · distribution · standard deviation · outlier · sampling · error
Maximum oscillation displacement
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- vibrationRapid oscillating movement
- waveformGraphed oscillation pattern
- periodicityRecurring at regular intervals
harmonic · resonance · cycle · pendulum · undulation · swing · ripple · pulsation
Amounts charged for goods
- marketsTrade gathering places
- currencyMedium of exchange
- exchange ratesCurrency conversion values
- inflationSustained price level increase
stocks · commodities · interest rates · demand · supply · boom · bust · correction
volatility
Rapid, unpredictable changeability
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
- variabilityTendency to change
irregularity · inconsistency · unsteadiness · turbulence · flux · imbalance · precariousness · fickleness · capriciousness · erratic
variance
Spread around the mean
- deviationDeparture from expected path
- dispersionScattering across space
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
discrepancy · variability · range · spread · distribution · standard deviation · outlier · sampling · error · margin
amplitude
Maximum oscillation displacement
periodicity · harmonic · resonance · cycle · pendulum · undulation · swing · ripple · pulsation · wave
prices
Amounts charged for goods
- marketsTrade gathering places
- currencyMedium of exchange
- exchange ratesCurrency conversion values
inflation · stocks · commodities · interest rates · demand · supply · boom · bust · correction · trading
- fluctuationsoscillations, variations, swings, waves, shifts
- mood swingsmood swing, ups and downs, volatility, instability, moodiness
- Volatilityvolatility, instability, unpredictability, variability, variance
- statistical mechanicsentropy, thermal equilibrium, phase transition, critical point, free energy
- nonequilibriumirreversibility, dissipation, steady state, steady states, steady-state
- excitationsquasiparticles, singlet state, energy level, energy levels, quantum states
fluctuationsstability
Resistance to displacement
constancy · steadiness · stabilities · uniformity · consistency
fluctuationspredictability
Capacity to be anticipated
regularity · orderliness · pattern · certainty · reliability
- currency fluctuationShifts in money's worth
- hormonal fluctuationsChanges in body's chemical messengers
- price fluctuationsChanges in cost levels
- market fluctuationsChanges in trading values
- temperature fluctuationChange in warmth level
- quantum fluctuationBrief energy variance in emptiness