Word Finder - reverberations

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A violent oscillation or vibration.

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The discomfort caused by the bat's reverberation surprised Tommy.

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An echo, or a series of overlapping echoes.

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The reverberation that followed Marilyn's shout filled the cavern.

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The reflection of light or heat; a reflection in, or as though in, a mirror.

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Like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking glasses.

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(chiefly in the plural) An evolving series of effects resulting from a particular event; a repercussion.

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Reverberations from the Vietnam war affect our society to this day.

The symmetry is remarkable, and the reverberations are strangely musical.

Nik and Mrs fiend remain a nefarious nucleus, able to attract the finest in contributing satellites for their ravishing reverberations.

As John Goodman taps his way along the walls listening for the concealed safe, you hear the reverberations behind you.

Thus every action and word has reverberations for others.

At larger distances also arrivals caused by multiple P-wave reverberations inside the whole crust with a group velocity around 5.8 km/s.

However, the impact of the events of the Olympics was enormous and she felt the reverberations in every area of her life.

Reverberations of the gossip of St James's and Mayfair extended to Bloomsbury in those days.

The arched passage-way is very symmetrical, varying in height from 19 to 35 ft., and famous for its musical reverberations - not a distinct echo, but an harmonious prolongation of sound for from 10 to 30 seconds after the original tone is produced.