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sympathetic vibration

noun Physics.

a vibration induced by resonance.

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Origin of sympathetic vibration

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby sympathetic vibration

sympathetic ophthalmia, sympathetic strike, sympathetic string, sympathetic trunk, sympathetic uveitis, sympathetic vibration, sympathetoblast, sympathetoblastoma, sympathico-, sympathicoblast, sympathicoblastoma
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