periodic event vs oscillation

periodic event and oscillation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
periodic event	Yes	No	No	No
oscillation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, oscillation is a hyponym of periodic event; that is, oscillation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than periodic event:

periodic event: an event that recurs at intervals
oscillation: a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon

Other hyponyms of periodic event include migration, cycle, repeat, repetition, sunrise, sunset, beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse, tide.

periodic event (noun)	oscillation (noun)
an event that recurs at intervals	(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
	a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
	the process of oscillating between states

periodic event vs oscillation

periodic event and oscillation both are nouns.

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