reverberation

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Had they not produced an impression that warranted people in looking for appeals in the newspapers for the rescue of the little one--reverberation, amid a vociferous public, of the idea that some movement should be started or some benevolent person should come forward?

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  1. noun The act of reverberating.
  2. noun The condition of being reverberated.
  3. noun Something reverberated.
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  • Then they hit a bump and the glove box snapped open and the lid dropped down with a reverberation, and it jumped on him. —  Lost Echoes by Joe R Lansdale
  • The screen coalesced into the dense, fuzzy color of old TV sets and with just a hint of reverberation, the sound boomed into the room from the huge speakers. —  Death of a Blue Movie Star
  • Panic had momentarily touched his soul at the shock of that unexpected reverberation, and the red rage of the primitive that is wakened by threat of peril, always lurked close to the surface of the Cimmerian. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • A room's reverberation is the result of multiple reflections between opposite boundary surfaces. —  Stereophile RSS Feed
  • No EQ, no artificial reverberation -- the sessions are held in a large chamber music auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. —  Big Picture Big Sound - Home Theater, HDTV, Movie Reviews
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  1. from Middle English reverberacioun, from Old French reverberation, French réverbération = Provencal reverberatio = Spanish reverberacion = Portuguese reverberação = Italian reverberazione, riverberazione, from Latin reverberare, past participle reverberatus, beat back: see reverberate.
 

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/rəvərbəˈreɪʃən/
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