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echo chamber
The Collaborative International Dictionary
echo chamber \ech"o cham"ber\, n. (Music, broadcasting) A room with walls that resonate sound, producing audible echoes; it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose. 2 In music production, a sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to echoes. 3 (context derogatory by extension English) An insular communication space that is of no interest to outsiders or refuses their input.
Wikipedia
thumb|right|Echo chamber of the Dresden University of Technology thumb|right| Hamilton Mausoleum has a spectacularly long lasting unplanned echo An echo chamber is a hollow enclosure used to produce reverberated sounds, usually for recording purposes. For example, the producers of a television or radio program might wish to produce the aural illusion that a conversation is taking place in a large room or a cave; these effects might be accomplished by playing the recording of the conversation inside an echo chamber, with an accompanying microphone to catch the reverberation. Nowadays, digital, algorithmic, and convolution reverbs are more widely used to create such effects, but echo chambers are still used today, such as the famous echo chambers at Capitol Studios.
In music, the use of acoustic echo and reverberation effects has taken many forms and dates back many hundreds of years. Medieval and Renaissance sacred music relied heavily on the composers' extensive understanding and use of the complex natural reverberation and echoes inside churches and cathedrals. This early acoustical knowledge informed the design of opera houses and concert halls in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; these were deliberately built to create internal reflections in order to enhance and project sound from the stage in the days before electrical amplification. Sometimes echo effects were the unintentional side effect of the architectural or engineering design, such as for the Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland, reportedly having the longest reverberation of any building.
In news media an echo chamber is a metaphorical description of a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an "enclosed" system, where different or competing views are censored, disallowed, or otherwise underrepresented. The term is by analogy with an acoustic echo chamber, where sounds reverberate.
Usage examples of "echo chamber".
Jame paused, her ears still ringing from the echo chamber of the gorge.
But he knew what was expected of him, the echo chamber for his ruler's thoughts.
But he knew what was expected of him, the echo chamber for his rulers thoughts.
But he knew what was expected of him, the echo chamber for his ruler’.
A stormtrooper struck his fist against a circular brass plate set into the rock, and sound enhancers piped the single knock through an echo chamber so that it boomed and reverberated like the summons of a powerful deity.
In all the bustle, I took the measure of the echo chamber's pitch, humming softly in either direction until I was sure I had the angle of it.
Like an echo chamber, the shelter magnified every excited breath, every slap of the dark-green water on the fibreglass hull.
The fat man moaned, the sound rolling around the great echo chamber of his belly before being released to thrum against the heavy quiet.
He remained in the low-beamed rectangle of the doorway, listening back along the blackness of the tunnel, to the echo chamber of the last cave.
All of this flashing through Nathan's metaphysical mind, even his secret mind, as he forgot a simple yet all-important fact: that in the immeasurable echo chamber of the Mobius Continuum, even secret thoughts have weight!
And I was weak all over, belonging to them inside and out, belonging to the roar of the water in this echo chamber of a room, to their hands, to the whole procedure and the way it was done, as if it had been done to thousands before us.
Raj's attention was focused utterly on the ridge, but he could hear voices coming as if from a distance through an echo chamber: it was surprisingly quiet here, for a few instants.