What does REVERBERATE mean?
Definitions for REVERBERATE
rɪˈvɜr bəˌreɪt; -bər ɪtre·ver·ber·ate
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Princeton's WordNet
resound, echo, ring, reverberateverb
ring or echo with sound
"the hall resounded with laughter"
reverberateverb
have a long or continuing effect
"The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
reverberateverb
be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves
"the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
reflect, reverberateverb
to throw or bend back (from a surface)
"Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochetverb
spring back; spring away from an impact
"The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
reverberateverb
treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace
"reverberate ore"
Wiktionary
reverberateverb
to ring with many echos
reverberateverb
to have a lasting effect
reverberateverb
to repeatedly return
reverberateverb
to rebound or recoil
reverberateverb
to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
reverberateverb
to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light
Etymology: * From verbero.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To REVERBERATEverb
Etymology: reverbero, Lat. reverberer, Fr.
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An echo with the clamour of thy drum,
And ev’n at hand a drum is ready brac’d,
That shall reverberate all as well as thine. William Shakespeare, K. John.Nor doth he know them for aught,
Till he behold them formed in th’ applause
Where they’re extended; which, like an arch, reverb’rates
The sound again. William Shakespeare.As the sight of the eye is like a glass, so is the ear a sinuous cave, with a hard bone, to stop and reverberate the sound. Francis Bacon.
As we, to improve the nobler kinds of fruits, are at the expence of walls to receive and reverberate the faint rays of the sun, so we, by the help of a good soil, equal the production of warmer countries. Jonathan Swift.
Crocus martis, that is steel corroded with vinegar or sulphur, and after reverberated with fire, the loadstone will not attract. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
To Reverberateverb
The rays of royal majesty reverberated so strongly upon Villerio, that they dispelled all clouds. James Howell.
Wikipedia
Reverberate
Reverberation (also known as reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound, after a sound is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected causing numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is absorbed by the surfaces of objects in the space – which could include furniture, people and air. This is most noticeable when the sound source stops but the reflections continue, their amplitude decreasing, until zero is reached. Reverberation is frequency dependent: the length of the decay, or reverberation time, receives special consideration in the architectural design of spaces which need to have specific reverberation times to achieve optimum performance for their intended activity. In comparison to a distinct echo, that is detectable at a minimum of 50 to 100 ms after the previous sound, reverberation is the occurrence of reflections that arrive in a sequence of less than approximately 50 ms. As time passes, the amplitude of the reflections gradually reduces to non-noticeable levels. Reverberation is not limited to indoor spaces as it exists in forests and other outdoor environments where reflection exists. Reverberation occurs naturally when a person sings, talks, or plays an instrument acoustically in a hall or performance space with sound-reflective surfaces. Reverberation is applied artificially by using reverb effects, which simulate reverb through means including echo chambers, vibrations sent through metal, and digital processing.Although reverberation can add naturalness to recorded sound by adding a sense of space, it can also reduce speech intelligibility, especially when noise is also present. People with hearing loss, including users of hearing aids, frequently report difficulty in understanding speech in reverberant, noisy situations. Reverberation is also a significant source of mistakes in automatic speech recognition. Dereverberation is the process of reducing the level of reverberation in a sound or signal.
ChatGPT
reverberate
To reverberate means to be reflected several times before fading away, often referring to a sound or noise. It can also refer to the process of an event or idea having continuing, serious, and lasting effects or consequences.
Webster Dictionary
Reverberateadjective
reverberant
Reverberateadjective
driven back, as sound; reflected
Reverberateverb
to return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat
Reverberateverb
to send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace
Reverberateverb
hence, to fuse by reverberated heat
Reverberateverb
to resound; to echo
Reverberateverb
to be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound
Etymology: [L. reverberatus, p. p. of reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Reverberate
rē-vėr′bėr-āt, v.t. to send back, echo: to reflect: to drive from side to side: to fuse.—v.i. to echo: to resound: to bound back: to be repelled: to use heat, as in the fusion of metals.—v.t. Reverb′ (Shak.).—adj. Rever′berant, resounding, beating back.—n. Reverberā′tion, the reflection of sound, &c.—adj. Rever′berātive.—n. Rever′berātor.—adj. Rever′berātory.—Reverberatory furnace, a furnace in which the flame is reflected on the substance to be burned. [L.,—re-, back, verberāre, -ātum, to beat—verber, a lash.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of REVERBERATE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of REVERBERATE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of REVERBERATE in a Sentence
Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester:
Lack of liquidity in financial markets is a first-order problem that can reverberate through the financial system and the economy.
The effects of Lake Powell dipping below Lake Powell critical threshold in spring could reverberate through the states reliant on that water months down the road.
The eyes of the nation are on California because the decision you’re going to make isn’t just going to have a huge impact on California, it’s going to reverberate around the nation, and quite frankly — not a joke — around the world.
Of course Apple is a really big company, and having disappointed a little bit on the sales side of things, does tend to reverberate around the world in technology stocks ... but we would consider that to be just normal volatility, the Greek resolution is now largely priced into European markets, so going forward we're more focused on the European fundamentals ... which we think are very favourable, so we continue to hold European equity overweight in the back of that view.
Many European companies are international and so the global impact of tightening U.S. liquidity will reverberate on European markets.
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- reverberarCatalan, Valencian
- reverberarSpanish
- aaheeanManx
- गूंजनाHindi
- riecheggiare, riverberareItalian
- wheoroMāori
- reverberarPortuguese
- раздаваться, отраRussian
- 迴響Chinese
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