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View synonyms for reverberation

reverberation

[ ri-vur-buh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a reechoed sound.
  2. the fact of being reverberated or reflected.
  3. something that is reverberated:

    Reverberations from the explosion were felt within a six-mile radius.

  4. an act or instance of reverberating.
  5. Physics. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped, caused by multiple reflection of the sound within a closed space.
  6. the act or process of subjecting something to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reverberation1

1350–1400; Middle English reverberacioun < Medieval Latin reverberātiōn- (stem of reverberātiō ). See reverberate, -ion

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