sympathetic vibration
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sympathetic vibration
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Her voice rose slightly until it shook and sent a sympathetic vibration over the window vines.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
Fourthly, many striking results, both great and small, may be produced by an extension of Sympathetic Vibration.a principle which may be described as that of sympathetic vibration.
From The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater
As you know, this sympathetic vibration of the like-pitched strings with the overtones is really not to be conceived as sympathy, but rather as lifeless mechanical necessity.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
To spend a few days on board a yacht with the same companions is a very good test of the value of sympathetic vibration in human associations.
From The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance by Marie Corelli
We must not think of this sympathetic vibration as an ingenious journalist pictured it, who tells a gruesome story of Beethoven's F minor sonata, Op.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
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