fluctuant
/ˈflʌktjʊənt
/adjective literary or technical
Fluctuating; unstable.From where he lay on the end of the dock, the river was like fluctuant diamond-paned glass of two colors, olive green and steel blue, leaded together by wavering white stitches of sun....
- What matters is their interpretability, the meanings they attract, their fluctuant interpretive magnetism.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Old French 'undulating', from Latin fluctuare 'undulate'.
- splice the main brace
- spliff
- spline
- spline curve
- splint
- splint bone
- splinter
- splinter bar
- splinter group
- splinter party
- splinter-proof
- splintery
- split
- splitboard
- split-brain
- split decision
- split end
- split hairs
- split-half
- split image
- split infinitive
- split-level
- split one's sides (also split a gut)
- split pea
- split-personality disorder