sympathetic vibration

American  

noun

Physics.

1. a vibration induced by resonance.

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Etymology

Origin of sympathetic vibration

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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sympathetic vibration

Her voice rose slightly until it shook and sent a sympathetic vibration over the window vines.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

Such impressions as were made upon the form would in this case be transmitted to the thinker—not along an astral telegraph line, as before, but by sympathetic vibration.

From Clairvoyance by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)

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

The clock measured the silence with its measured ticking; it chimed abruptly and the vase sent up its usual sympathetic vibration.

From The Street That Wasn't There by Jacobi, Carl Richard

There are composers of whom few ever heard, whose magnum opus was some romance that still makes the heart-strings tingle by the acoustic law of sympathetic vibration.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert