reverberation
a reechoed sound.
the fact of being reverberated or reflected.
something that is reverberated: Reverberations from the explosion were felt within a six-mile radius.
an act or instance of reverberating.
Physics. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped, caused by multiple reflection of the sound within a closed space.
the act or process of subjecting something to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.
Origin of reverberation
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How to use reverberation in a sentence
Editors and producers may additionally find that the Q9U picks up relatively more background noise and reverberation as a result of users sitting further back from the mic, which can pose problems in spaces that lack acoustic treatment.
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How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera | Constance Grady | February 5, 2021 | VoxThat groundbreaking style found avid fans through its characteristically fulsome reverberation, a quality that played well on radios and jukeboxes, the then-dominant audio-broadcasting technology.
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A minute later the street door, four flights down, rang out in jarring reverberation.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottThe air was calm, and the reverberation rolled far over the forest.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Just before dawn he was assisted in waking by the abnormal reverberation of familiar music.
Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas HardyThey were like the reverberation of some far-off tutored circle.
The Tragic Muse | Henry JamesSuddenly a voice boomed at them, like an echo, more than the reverberation that the cave would give.
The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. Delany
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