parasitic oscillation

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noun

(in an electronic circuit) oscillation at any undesired frequencySometimes shortened to: parasitic

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Words nearby parasitic oscillation

parasitic, parasitic cyst, parasiticide, parasitic male, parasitic melanoderma, parasitic oscillation, parasitism, parasitize, parasitogenic, parasitoid, parasitoidism

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How to use parasitic oscillation in a sentence

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Welcome to Generation Overshare: Lena Dunham, Taylor Swift, and the Politics of Self-Disclosure|Marlow Stern|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In contrast, The Strain was returning to the roots of vampires as scary parasitic creatures—and I liked that.
Vampires without Glitter or Girl Problems: Inside Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Strain’|Andrew Romano|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The viral-CSI element; the mythic vampires who were parasitic and brutal; the arrival of the airplane to JFK; the dead passengers.
Vampires without Glitter or Girl Problems: Inside Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Strain’|Andrew Romano|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One of those observations is BOSS: the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.
Using Black Holes to Measure Dark Energy, Like a BOSS|Matthew R. Francis|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Baryon oscillation is basically sound waves in the early Universe.
Using Black Holes to Measure Dark Energy, Like a BOSS|Matthew R. Francis|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Seeing the luggage piled “Olympus high,” so as to occasion an alarming oscillation.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
It appears to be of parasitic origin, but the specific organism that causes it has not been isolated.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
The oscillation without raised and depressed the level of the waters within, with the regularity of respiration.
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo
Thus there is a perpetual oscillation in spiritual truths, and in spiritual doctrines of any significance, even when not truths.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
He went off into a happy mist of quantum mechanics, oscillation theory, and periodic functions of a complex variable.
Security|Poul William Anderson