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reappearance collapse: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"; the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet"

oscillation collapse: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean; the process of oscillating between states

interaction collapse: a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting; (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons

sequel collapse: a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it; something that follows something else

permutation collapse: act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group; complete change in character or condition; "the permutations...taking place in the physical world"- Henry Miller; the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements

quid pro quo collapse: something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises

commutation collapse: the travel of a commuter; (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law; a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one

reciprocation collapse: alternating back-and-forth movement; the act of making or doing something in return

vicissitude collapse: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another); a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"

pulsation collapse: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"; a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity

intercommunication collapse: mutual communication; communication with each other; "they intercepted intercommunication between enemy ships"

fluctuation collapse: the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"; a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"

recurrence collapse: happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring"

intermittence collapse: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping

transposition collapse: (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards; the act of reversing the order or place of; (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance; "he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition"; (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign; (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome; any abnormal position of the organs of the body

seesaw collapse: a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end; move up and down as if on a seesaw

sequence collapse: film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie; a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"; several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys; serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"; arrange in a sequence; determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"

series collapse: (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions; a periodical that appears at scheduled times; (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"; similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"; a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"; (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"

wigwag collapse: signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code; send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code

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