Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reverberation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reverberation \Re*ver`ber*a"tion\, n. [CF. F.
r['e]verb['e]ration.]
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting
light or heat, or re["e]choing sound; as, the reverberation
of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a
mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of
heat or flame in a furnace.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reverberation
n : the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped
[syn: {echo}, {sound reflection}]
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