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
Such impressions as were made upon the form would in this case be transmitted to the thinker—not along an astral telegraph line, but by a sympathetic vibration.
From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami
In this case it is a species of sympathetic vibration.
If this is done without pushing, but by flexible action, a sympathetic vibration can be felt through the entire body.
From The Renaissance of the Vocal Art by Myer, Edmund
The pendulum clock struck slowly, its every other chime as usual setting up a sympathetic vibration in the pewter vase that stood upon the mantel.
From The Street That Wasn't There by Jacobi, Carl Richard
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