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
Sorry the man who does not feel a sympathetic vibration!
From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch
While engaged in these investigations Sauveur also observed the sympathetic vibration of a string induced by the excitation of a second one in unison with it.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
Helmholtz put forward the hypothesis that, when a pendular vibration reaches the ear, it excites by sympathetic vibration the fibre of Corti which is tuned for its proper number of vibrations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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 Corelli, Marie
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