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babel (plural babels)

From Old French reverberation, from Medieval Latin reverberatio.Morphologically reverberate +? -ion

reverberation (countable and uncountable, plural reverberations)

A violent oscillation or vibration.
The discomfort caused by the bat's reverberation surprised Tommy.
An echo, or a series of overlapping echoes.
The reverberation that followed Marilyn's shout filled the cavern.
The reflection of light or heat; a reflection in, or as though in, a mirror.
Like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking glasses.
(chiefly in the plural) An evolving series of effects resulting from a particular event; a repercussion.
Reverberations from the Vietnam war affect our society to this day.

John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “reverberation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

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