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
The lines telling of the great bell stirred by the note of a flute played at the proper pitch suggest the moving power that lies in sympathetic vibration.
From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. Miller
The other strings through sympathetic vibration furnish an undertone almost like an æolian harmony.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
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 C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater
He explained accurately the mechanism of the bones of the ear, and he discussed the physiological action of the cochlea on the principles of sympathetic vibration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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