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
The Democratic Party delegates heard the reverberations echo through their hall.
Atlanta’s Fall Foretold The End Of Civil War Bloodshed | Marc Wortman | September 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo be ready for Hillary as a fighter for economic fairness in 2016—and for reverberations of the 1992 Clinton message.
The reverberations are global and not confined to the Eurozone.
But here Jones is smart, determined, and sensitive to bureaucratic reverberations.
Johnson brings the place alive in all its horror, and the reverberations to New Orleans' modern pathologies are easy to trace.
Again the report of a shot tore a great rent in the wintry stillness and rang out with sharp reverberations.
Boyhood in Norway | Hjalmar Hjorth BoyesenAnd reaching his desk, the little boy slammed down his slate with clattering reverberations.
Emmy Lou | George Madden MartinI feared that my friends had been misled by the reverberations, and I pictured them to myself hastening in the opposite direction.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsThe reverberations of artillery and the huzzas of the populace saluted his footsteps.
Oftentimes an echo goes as it were to sleep: the series of reverberations has died away.
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