SINCE 1828
unstable oscillation
nounDefinition of unstable oscillation
: an oscillation (as of an airplane) whose amplitude increases continuously until an altitude is reached from which there is no tendency to return toward the original altitude, the motion becoming a steady divergence — compare stable oscillation
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