From Latin flÅ«ctuÄns, flÅ«ctuant- , present participle of flÅ«ctuÄre, to fluctuate; see fluctuate. adjective. 1  Subject to change or variation: variable: fluctuant oil prices. 2  Medicine Capable of being moved or compressed.3  Used of an abnormal mass such as a tumor or abscess. 4  Moving in waves.djective. 1  Subject to change or variation: variable: fluctuant oil prices. 2  Medicine Capable of being moved or compressed. 3  Moving in waves.
Like Gulf Oil, Texaco was founded in 1901 after a major oil strike at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas. The company was officially incorporated as The Texas Company in 1902 and the word Texaco was first used as a brand (for asphalt, not gasoline) in 1903.
1836--On Apr. 21, General Sam Houston's Texas army wins independence from Mex ico in the Battle of San Jacinto. 1836--Houston founded on Aug. 30 by brothers Augustus C. and John K. Allen, who pay just over $1.40 per acre for 6,642 acres of land near the headwaters of Buffalo Bayou.ouston was capital of the Republic from 1837 to 1840. 1837--The Laura is the first steamship to visit Houston. 1840--On Apr. 4, seven Houston businessmen form the Houston Chamber of Commerce. 1842--Texas' oldest newspaper, The Galveston Daily News, starts publication.