os|cil|lo|scope

os|cil|lo|scope
os|cil|lo|scope «uh SIHL uh skohp», noun.
Electricity. an instrument for representing the oscillations of a varying voltage or current on the fluorescent screen of a cathode-ray tube.
[< Latin ōscillāre to swing + English -scope]

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