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English

Etymology

gyrate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?a???e???n/

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

gyration (plural gyrations)

1. The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
   • 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)

     If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]

2. One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
3. Appropriate arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex.

See also

• gyrification

Anagrams

• organity

English

Etymology

From French vibration, from Latin vibr?ti? (“a shaking or brandishing”), from vibr? (“shake, vibrate”); see vibrate.Morphologically vibrate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /va??b?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

vibration (countable and uncountable, plural vibrations)

1. The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
2. (physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
3. A single complete vibrating motion.
4. (parapsychology) A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.
5. (by extension, slang, often in the plural) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere.

   Synonym: vibes

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Translations

Further reading

• vibration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vibration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin vibr?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.b?a.sj??/

Noun

vibration f (plural vibrations)

1. vibration

Related terms

• vibrer

Further reading

• “vibration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).