How to Use oscillator in a Sentence

oscillator

noun

• The fly represents the oscillator, the part that controls the pitch.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2015
• The cleaner works with an oscillator that'll move it back and forth, causing the cleaner to cover the bottom of the pool and pick up grime.
  — Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2022
• But that’s in essence what the teams of Gröblacher and Sillanpää have achieved with their tiny oscillators.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2018
• The cell is almost a perfect oscillator: The electric potential of a cell membrane goes up and down in a smooth rhythm.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012
• The gadget, about the size of a toaster, uses charged mercury ions to keep its quartz oscillator true, and loses only about one nanosecond over four days.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
• Well, an oscillator, like a swing, has a frequency that is given by its construction: the mass and length of the rope set a preferred frequency.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2018
• In an atomic clock, the frequency of the quartz oscillator is fine tuned to match the energy needed to pop electrons to a new energy level.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
• So, Burt says, atomic clocks pair an oscillator with a collection of atoms to help keep that frequency stable.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021
• This watch features a rose gold metal casing and moving glitter pieces as well as a quartz oscillator and three hands to keep track of time as precisely as possible.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
• This change is then picked up by a second device called a ring oscillator, which converts voltage changes into a string of electrical pulses.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 31 May 2018
• One beam gets reflected off a component known as an oscillator, and any movement of the oscillator changes the distance the light travels on its way to a detector.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
• At the heart of the team’s p-bit is a component called an optical parametric oscillator (OPO), which is essentially a pair of mirrors that bounce light back and forth between them.
  — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2023
• But assembly requires only the ability to push a 4-pin oscillator crystal into a socket the right way around.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2013
• And there's a reading based on the stochastic oscillator that is an actual overbought reading.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• No child with CF had successfully come off an oscillator, doctors told her parents.
  — Jessica Ravitz, CNN, 5 July 2017
• Here is an example of the stochastic oscillator using ether (ETH).
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• In an optical lattice atomic clock, a type of atomic clock that’s still being developed and perfected, atoms act as the oscillator.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• One of these tiny simple harmonic oscillators, sort of like this tiny pendulum, existing at every point in space.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Back in 2008, Hasty and his team created an oscillator for single cells that could be set to temperature or chemical triggers.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
• Atomic clocks, like every other kind, start with an oscillator: something that vibrates.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021
• Our guess is that a MEMS oscillator used to generate a clock signal for the phones is misbehaving after exposure to helium, hence the system-wide failure.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
• Its 12-voice engine offers two oscillators per voice, a 32-step sequencer and four envelopes to deliver authentic, true analog grit.
  — Popular Science, 26 May 2020
• On a watch, the traditional oscillator has over 30 parts including a balance wheel and a balance spring, which contribute to a watch’s accuracy through a back-and-forth rotation.
  — Michael Clerizo, WSJ, 31 July 2018
• Like the heartbeat of a human, timing technologies such as oscillators and clock chips are fundamental building blocks of complex circuits, systems and networks.
  — Dave Altavilla, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Where each horizontal and vertical oscillator meet is a weighted connection representing the strength of the link between two spins.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• The goal is to put the oscillator in a quantum superposition of two vibration modes, and then see whether gravity destabilizes the superposition.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
• Beyond just building a more accurate timepiece, using an oscillator instead of a balance spring means less moving parts, which means less wear and no required lubrication.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2017
• Patent application for the radio crystal oscillator is filed.
  — cleveland.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• And throughout science and physics in particular, oscillators are always sort of important.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• In this century, computer scientists found all these oscillators, except two: 19 and 41.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024