"fluctuator" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, Susanne Rockne Morris, Budget Cutback: An Empirical Test of Budgeting Theory in Conditions of Fiscal Stress, page 130:",
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        "A quantum system in which an electric charge moves back and forward between two states that are separated by an energy barrier"
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        "(physics) A quantum system in which an electric charge moves back and forward between two states that are separated by an energy barrier"
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