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sympathetic vibration

n. the vibration of a body, at its natural frequency, in response to that of a neighbouring one having that frequency; resonance

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sympathetic vibration

n. (physics) vibration produced by resonance

Usage examples of "sympathetic vibration".

When an outside force with the same frequency as the natural frequency of the object causes the object to vibrate, it's called resonance, or sympathetic vibration.

The other two men flinched at the orgasmic discharge that energized the interior of the car for an instant, setting their own nerves afire with sympathetic vibration.

The physical sound patterns produced by Mantras are capable of coming into sympathetic vibration with patterns made up of physical phenomena.

The heavy hum of the transformer rose a notch, and every board in the shed picked it up and rattled in sympathetic vibration.

The supplicant voice rose in pitch, a sympathetic vibration shivering the ragged man's body.

The supplicant voice rose in pitch, a sympathetic vibration shivering the ragged man’.

Military transports, torqued by hundreds of liftoffs and landings, often clanged a single bell note that meant sympathetic vibration was doing its best to hammer to death the vessel and everyone aboard her.

The increment to the AI's calculated power was minute, but it kept the hull from resonating with sympathetic vibration.

This time she was successful, and she could feel her nerve ends begin to tingle in a kind of sympathetic vibration with the consciousness of the man she sought.

The oscillation un-stabilized the opposing screen and started it in a sympathetic vibration.

A deep sympathetic vibration was felt by everyone there on the roof.

Another time, driving with him in his pickup, I heard him speak with such emphasis that he raised a sympathetic vibration from the dashboard.

The oscillation unstabilised the opposing screen and started it in a sympathetic vibration.

I caught the reverberation of her moan through the fluid like the sympathetic vibration of jet engines in the pit of my stomach, and felt myself stiffening in response.

The emotional timbre shaping his words found a sympathetic vibration within Prynn.