English-Portuguese translations for fluctuation

• flutuação
  O próprio SME foi alterado em 1993 tendo-se alargado as bandas de flutuação.The EMS was itself modified in 1993, with the broadening of the fluctuation bands.
  A causa principal do choque de preços nos bens alimentares tem sido a enorme flutuação da oferta. The main cause of the food price shock has been the tremendous fluctuation in supply.
  Confrontamo-nos, ainda, com uma procura diminuída e com a flutuação de preços em muitos sectores agrícolas. We are still faced with low demand and price fluctuations in many sectors of agriculture.
• ondulação

Definition of fluctuation

• A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction
• A wavering; unsteadiness
• In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity , which is felt during palpation or percussion

Examples

• the fluctuations of the sea
• fluctuations of opinion
• fluctuations of prices

Related words

• quantum fluctuation
• vacuum fluctuation
• price fluctuation