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
We must not think of this sympathetic vibration as an ingenious journalist pictured it, who tells a gruesome story of Beethoven's F minor sonata, Op.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
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
The class of mantras or spells which produce their result not by controlling some elemental, but merely by the repetition of certain sounds, also depend for their efficacy upon this action of sympathetic vibration.
From The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
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