English shmenglish. Language shmanguage. The practice of copying a word and sticking a shm- onto it came into the U.S. with Yiddish speakers in the late 19th century, and by the 1930s it had spread ...

Regular OSCILLATION, for instance, by a particle in a solid, fluid or gas, displaced from its normal position or random motion, when the force required is proportional to the displacement. This motion ...