Definitions for reverberation

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reverberation re·ver·ber·a·tion

Spelling: [ri-vur-buh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /rɪˌvɜr bəˈreɪ ʃən/

Reverberation is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 883 anagrams from letters in reverberation (abeeeinorrrtv).

Definitions for reverberation

noun

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

Origin of reverberation

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

Examples for reverberation

I tell you what it is, Pugh, what I hear is the reverberation of some machinery.

The reverberation of his footsteps vibrated through his brain.

Then he kicked it lightly with his big boot, seeming to listen to its reverberation.

Meanwhile there was no reverberation from Seymour Street—only a sultry silence.

There was something very sad and solitary in the reverberation of my footsteps.

This reference to the "mewel" was only a reverberation of the town talk as Lin had predicted.

My love is the reverberation of the primeval voice, the echo of God's.

There was a sort of reverberation, too, as if the tree were hollow.

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

The reverberation of the shouting was as the plunge of a cataract.