Reverberation
noun
A sound that echoes or is reflected multiple times.
The sound of the gunfire had incredible reverberation in the mountainous region.
Often appears as...
- echoing reverberation
- loud reverberation
noun
The after-effects or consequences of an event or action.
The reverberations of the scandal were felt throughout the company for years.
Often appears as...
- political reverberations
- unexpected reverberation
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Academic
noun
In physics, the prolongation of a sound, echo or vibration.
Engineers carefully studied the reverberation of the sound waves in the hall.
Often appears as...
- sound reverberation
- acoustic reverberation
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Technical
noun
In music, an effect used to add sustain and density to the sound.
The guitarist used reverberation effects to give his solo a bigger sound.
Often appears as...
- musical reverberation
- studio reverberation
noun
A sound that echoes or is reflected multiple times.
The sound of the gunfire had incredible reverberation in the mountainous region.
Often appears as...
- echoing reverberation
- loud reverberation
noun
The after-effects or consequences of an event or action.
The reverberations of the scandal were felt throughout the company for years.
Often appears as...
- political reverberations
- unexpected reverberation
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
noun
In physics, the prolongation of a sound, echo or vibration.
Engineers carefully studied the reverberation of the sound waves in the hall.
Often appears as...
- sound reverberation
- acoustic reverberation
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In music, an effect used to add sustain and density to the sound.
The guitarist used reverberation effects to give his solo a bigger sound.
Often appears as...
- musical reverberation
- studio reverberation
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Space
Reverberation often suggests a large or open space where sound can bounce around.
Concert halls are designed to enhance the reverberation of music.
Pro Tip 2/2Amplified Sound
Sounds might seem louder due to reverberation, as it amplifies the original noise.
The reverberation in the empty hall made their footsteps sound like thunder.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Space
Reverberation often suggests a large or open space where sound can bounce around.
Concert halls are designed to enhance the reverberation of music.
Pro Tip 2/2Amplified Sound
Sounds might seem louder due to reverberation, as it amplifies the original noise.
The reverberation in the empty hall made their footsteps sound like thunder.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Space
Reverberation often suggests a large or open space where sound can bounce around.
Concert halls are designed to enhance the reverberation of music.
Pro Tip 2/2Amplified Sound
Sounds might seem louder due to reverberation, as it amplifies the original noise.
The reverberation in the empty hall made their footsteps sound like thunder.
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Julian Treasure: Why...
To you and me, that's a heart attack. It may not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day. What does it cost to treat a classroom down to that 0.4-second reverberation time?
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How to lead a...
And we do this work knowing that journalism as an institution is struggling, and that it has always had a role to play and will continue to have a role to play in supporting the exchange of ideas and views. For many of the participants in our groups, there are lasting reverberations.
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Peter Tyack: The...
You only hear the low frequencies. You hear the reverberation as the sound travels over long-range in the ocean and is not quite as loud. Now after I play back these humpback calls, I'll play blue whale calls, but they have to be sped up because they're so low in frequency
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Encouraging A New-Born...
third digit it's on a ball and socket joint so it can go all the way around that's normal and they tap this extremely extremely fast and then the reverberations of the sound they can detect the differences in density of the material that they're tapping on and that's
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Why architects need to...
not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day what does it cost to treat a classroom down to that naught point for second reverberation time two and a half
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5 ways to listen better...
But that's not all. Sound places us in space and in time. If you close your eyes right now in this room, you're aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the sound off the surfaces; you're aware of how many people are around you,
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How architecture helped...
so the nature of the room meant that words could be understood the lyrics of the songs could be pretty much understood the sound system was kind of decent and there wasn't a lot of reverberation in the room so the rhythms
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Everything you hear on...
you want those sounds to live in the world of the story. And one the best ways to do that is to add reverb. So this is the first audio tool I want to talk about. Reverberation, or reverb, is the persistence of the sound
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How architecture helped...
So the nature of the room meant that words could be understood. The lyrics of the songs could be pretty much understood. The sound system was kind of decent. And there wasn't a lot of reverberation in the room.
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Stonehenge Theories with...
done the kind of research I've done then you know the truth reverberation experiments are done here mm-hmm notices a certain vibration levels the dirt will change
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Why...
To you and me, that's a heart attack. It may not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day. What does it cost to treat a classroom down to that 0.4-second reverberation time?
Video examples
How to lead a...
And we do this work knowing that journalism as an institution is struggling, and that it has always had a role to play and will continue to have a role to play in supporting the exchange of ideas and views. For many of the participants in our groups, there are lasting reverberations.
Video examples
Peter Tyack: The...
You only hear the low frequencies. You hear the reverberation as the sound travels over long-range in the ocean and is not quite as loud. Now after I play back these humpback calls, I'll play blue whale calls, but they have to be sped up because they're so low in frequency
Video examples
Encouraging A New-Born...
third digit it's on a ball and socket joint so it can go all the way around that's normal and they tap this extremely extremely fast and then the reverberations of the sound they can detect the differences in density of the material that they're tapping on and that's
Video examples
Why architects need to...
not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day what does it cost to treat a classroom down to that naught point for second reverberation time two and a half
Video examples
5 ways to listen better...
But that's not all. Sound places us in space and in time. If you close your eyes right now in this room, you're aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the sound off the surfaces; you're aware of how many people are around you,
Video examples
How architecture helped...
so the nature of the room meant that words could be understood the lyrics of the songs could be pretty much understood the sound system was kind of decent and there wasn't a lot of reverberation in the room so the rhythms
Video examples
Everything you hear on...
you want those sounds to live in the world of the story. And one the best ways to do that is to add reverb. So this is the first audio tool I want to talk about. Reverberation, or reverb, is the persistence of the sound
Video examples
How architecture helped...
So the nature of the room meant that words could be understood. The lyrics of the songs could be pretty much understood. The sound system was kind of decent. And there wasn't a lot of reverberation in the room.
Video examples
Stonehenge Theories with...
done the kind of research I've done then you know the truth reverberation experiments are done here mm-hmm notices a certain vibration levels the dirt will change
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Quote examples
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
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Lynda Resnick
American Businesswoman
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.
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Madeleine Albright
American Statesman
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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Spike Lee
American Director
A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.
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Richard Corliss
American Writer
A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.
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Bill Dixon
American Musician
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
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Derek Cianfrance
American Director
I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.
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Steven Soderbergh
American Director
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.
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Norman Mailer
American Novelist
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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Philip Guston
American Artist
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
Quote examples
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
Quote examples
Lynda Resnick
American Businesswoman
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.
Quote examples
Madeleine Albright
American Statesman
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
Quote examples
Spike Lee
American Director
A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.
Quote examples
Richard Corliss
American Writer
A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.
Quote examples
Bill Dixon
American Musician
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
Quote examples
Derek Cianfrance
American Director
I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.
Quote examples
Steven Soderbergh
American Director
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.
Quote examples
Norman Mailer
American Novelist
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Quote examples
Philip Guston
American Artist
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
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