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Definition of Reverberation

1. Noun. The repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves. "She could hear echoes of her own footsteps"

2. Noun. A remote or indirect consequence of some action. "Reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"

Definition of Reverberation

1. n. The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Definition of Reverberation

1. Noun. A violent oscillation or vibration ¹

2. Noun. An echo, or a series of overlapping echos ¹

3. Noun. The reflection of light or heat; a reflection in, or as though in, a mirror. ¹

4. Noun. (''plural'') An evolving series of effects resulting from a particular event; a repercussion ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reverberation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reverberation

1. Multiple echoes or reflections; in ultrasonography, an artifactual image caused by delay of an echo which has been reflected back and forward again before returning to the transducer. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reverberation

revenues rever reverable reverb reverbed reverberance reverberances reverberant reverberantly reverberate

reverberated reverberates reverberating reverberating circuit reverberatingly reverberation (current term) reverberations reverberative reverberator reverberatories

reverberators reverberatory reverberatory furnace reverbing reverbs revere revered reverence reverenced reverencer

Literary usage of Reverberation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"TEM cell open site anechoic chamber reverberation chamber Table 152 ... reverberation Chambers reverberation chambers are also enclosed metallic chambers ..."

2. Collected Papers on Acoustics by Wallace Clement Sabine (1922)
"This contained a discussion of reverberation, complete as far as one note is concerned. There is on hand considerable material for a paper extending this ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Sound distortion and reverberation depend very largely upon the same conditions. ... Sound distortion is not so serious a matter as reverberation and, ..."

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