oscillator

One who or that which oscillates.

One of the Oscillatoria.

In machinery, any oscillating machine or part of a machine, as the oscillating shuttle of a sewing-machine, or the mechanism by which a power-hammer is vibrated or tilted.

A motor in which the piston oscillates in the cylinder over a minute range at high speed. In combination with a dynamo it is used to obtain currents of high frequency.

In wireless telegraphy, that part of the transmitting apparatus which produces the electric waves or oscillations. See wireless telegraphy.

One that oscillates.

An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.

a tuned electronic circuit used to generate a continuous output waveform

A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations.

generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current