different between reverberation vs reverberate

English

Alternative forms

• reverbation (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?v??(?)b??e???n/, /???v??(?)b??e???n/, /???v??(?)b??e???n/

Noun

reverberation (countable and uncountable, plural reverberations)

1. A violent oscillation or vibration.

   The discomfort caused by the bat's reverberation surprised Tommy.

2. An echo, or a series of overlapping echoes.

   The reverberation that followed Marilyn's shout filled the cavern.

3. 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.

4. (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.

Translations

References

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

English

Alternative forms

• reverbate (rare)

Etymology

• From Latin reverber?tus, past participle of reverber? (“to rebound”), from re- and verber? (“to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v??(?).b??.e?t/

Verb

reverberate (third-person singular simple present reverberates, present participle reverberating, simple past and past participle reverberated)

1. (intransitive) To ring or sound with many echos.
2. (intransitive) To have a lasting effect.
3. (intransitive) To repeatedly return.
4. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
5. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.

6. To fuse by reverberated heat.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     reverberated into glass

7. (intransitive) To rebound or recoil.
8. (intransitive) To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
9. (obsolete) To shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.

Related terms

• reverberant
• reverberation
• reverberator
• reverberatory
• reverberative

Translations

References

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

Adjective

reverberate (comparative more reverberate, superlative most reverberate)

1. reverberant
2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 9 p. 145[2]:

     With the reverberate sound the spacious ayre did fill

Latin

Participle

reverber?te

1. vocative masculine singular of reverber?tus