reverberation
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- noun
- /rɪˌvɜrˈbərˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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reverberación
- The sound and the reverberations coming from those engines, those five engines when they're ignited, it shakes the whole body, the reverberations from it.
- an artificial reverberation
- reverberation levels
- reverberation effect
They would have a powerful, you know, powerful reverberations.
- They would have a powerful, you know, powerful reverberations.
- There are sound waves, literally particles moving through the air, and reverberations that create what we call sound and hearing.
- It's the strings are reverberating or the drum, you know, as you banging the drum, it has the that reverberation.
Examples
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The concert hall was designed to enhance the reverberation of music, making every note linger in the air.
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A fair number of people, when asked where the shots came from, said there was no way to tell, there was too much reverberation.
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It is the reverberation of the sound.
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Then there was a sudden, deafening reverberation, like an explosion of solid stone.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her voice, even at a whisper, caused strange reverberations in the shaft.
Fiction book (1990) -
Technological advances allowed them to record the reverberations and reproduce them on a record.
Blog text (2) -
The rumbling pain of her stomach chorused with the reverberation of the trucks and heavy machinery around her.
Fiction book (1998) -
Every few orbits, he steps nose-first into the trunk of the piano, casting dull reverberations across the living room.
Academic text (2007) -
After the explosion, the reverberation could be felt for miles, shaking windows and rattling doors.
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In the empty room, her voice created a soft reverberation that echoed off the walls.
Synonyms
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A sound that comes back after bouncing off a surface like a wall or cliff
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Sound that keeps going because it bounces off walls, making it sound bigger
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A deep full sound that echoes and fills a space
A loud, full sound that echoes and stays in the air
A repeating sound that continues after the first sound stops
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
reverberation = reverberate (transparent) = reverberate + ion
Regular nominalization of the verb 'reverberate' with '-ion'; the noun denotes the action or state of being reverberated in the acoustic sense.
Etymology
Reverberation comes from Latin parts re- 'again' and verberare 'to strike'. So, think of a sound being 'struck again' by walls and ceilings and returning like an echo — that long, repeating sound is a reverberation.