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VIBRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of vibrating
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vibration" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vibration"):
shudder; tremor (an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear))
Derivation:
vibrate (move or swing from side to side regularly)
vibrational (of or relating to or characterized by vibration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively
Example:
it gave me a nostalgic vibe
Synonyms:
vibe; vibration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vibration" is a kind of...):
air; atmosphere; aura (a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
Synonyms:
oscillation; vibration
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vibration" is a kind of...):
undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vibration"):
ripple ((electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value)
transient ((physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load)
beat (a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations)
resonance (a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system)
sympathetic vibration ((physics) vibration produced by resonance)
Derivation:
vibrate (move or swing from side to side regularly)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A shaky motion
Example:
the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
Synonyms:
palpitation; quiver; quivering; shakiness; shaking; trembling; vibration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("vibration" is a kind of...):
motion (a state of change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vibration"):
tremolo ((music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones)
tremor (shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease))
Derivation:
vibrate (shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner)
vibrational (of or relating to or characterized by vibration)
Context examples:
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) Physical assessment; left foot - vibration perception at great toe.
(MNSI - Left Foot Vibration Great Toe, NCI Thesaurus)
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) Physical assessment; right foot - vibration perception at great toe.
(MNSI - Right Foot Vibration Great Toe, NCI Thesaurus)
An ultrasound-based imaging technique used to examine the stiffness or elasticity of a tissue by applying mechanical compression or vibration to the tissue being imaged.
(Elastography, NCI Thesaurus)
The vibrations travel to your inner ear, a snail-shaped organ.
(Ear Disorders, NIH)
Testing the device for its response to variations in air pressure produced by the vibration of an object.
(Device Acoustic Energy Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)
In both scenarios, running at medium speed produced vibrations making the animal's wings flap.
(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)
Vibrations from sound waves cause these hair cells to move up and down and create an electrical signal that travels to the brain.
(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)
Issue associated with any undesired acoustic energy or vibration that tends to interfere with the operation of the device.
(Ambient Noise in Medical Device Environment, Food and Drug Administration)
The three small bones in the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear.
(Auditory Ossicle, NCI Thesaurus)
Seismic vibrations that are almost imperceptible to human ears ripple through the rocks.
(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)
