reverberation

[ ri-vur-buh-rey-shuhn ]

/ rɪˌvɜr bəˈreɪ ʃən /

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noun

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.

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Origin of reverberation

1350–1400; Middle English reverberacioun<Medieval Latin reverberātiōn- (stem of reverberātiō). See reverberate, -ion

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