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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

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

recrudescence collapse: a return of something after a period of abatement; "a recrudescence of racism"; "a recrudescence of the symptoms"

regurgitation collapse: recall after rote memorization; "he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation"; backflow of blood through a defective heart valve

reincarnation collapse: the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions; a second or new birth; embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form); "his reincarnation as a lion"

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

swath collapse: a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing); the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine

pendulum collapse: an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity

doubling collapse: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"; increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"

gamut collapse: a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"; the entire scale of musical notes

continuum collapse: a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts

vibration collapse: the act of vibrating; a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively; "that place gave me bad vibrations"

tier collapse: one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"; something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers"; a worker who ties something; any one of two or more competitors who tie one another

rotation collapse: the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"; a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"; a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"; (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

gradation collapse: the act of arranging in grades; relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"

quotation collapse: the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"; a passage or expression that is quoted or cited; a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity

queue collapse: a braid of hair at the back of the head; (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a line of people or vehicles waiting for something

reproduction collapse: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring; the act of making copies; "Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient"; recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall; the process of generating offspring

alternation collapse: successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; being regularly exchangeable

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

chain reaction collapse: a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next; a self-sustaining nuclear reaction; a series of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by splitting one atom leads to the splitting of others

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

regularity collapse: the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits"; a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles

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"

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