reverberation

[ ri-vur-buh-rey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a reechoed sound.
the fact of being reverberated or reflected.
something that is reverberated:
Reverberations from the explosion were felt within a six-mile radius.
an act or instance of reverberating.
Physics. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped, caused by multiple reflection of the sound within a closed space.
the act or process of subjecting something to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.

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

A minute later the street door, four flights down, rang out in jarring reverberation.

The air was calm, and the reverberation rolled far over the forest.

Just before dawn he was assisted in waking by the abnormal reverberation of familiar music.

They were like the reverberation of some far-off tutored circle.

Suddenly a voice boomed at them, like an echo, more than the reverberation that the cave would give.

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