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sympathetic vibration

noun

Physics.
  1. a vibration induced by resonance.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sympathetic vibration1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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“I heard sympathetic vibrations. That’s the only way I can say it,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

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Her voice rose slightly until it shook and sent a sympathetic vibration over the window vines.

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Sympathy is an emotional connection, where one feels another's pain or vibrates in sympathy, as in the sympathetic vibrations of strings on a musical instrument.

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With Chisholm’s forceful voice reverberating in one’s ears, it’s hard not to see the vases as an audience: receptacles for sympathetic vibrations.

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And what happens is that if those strings are tuned within the harmonic series of the note we’re playing those strings will start to vibrate as well, so that’s what occurs with sympathetic vibration.

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