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vibration

/vahy-brey-shuhn/US // vaɪˈbreɪ ʃən //UK // (vaɪˈbreɪʃən) //

振动,震动,震撼,振动的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of vibrating.
    • : the state of being vibrated.
    • : Physics. the oscillating, reciprocating, or other periodic motion of a rigid or elastic body or medium forced from a position or state of equilibrium.the analogous motion of the particles of a mass of air or the like, whose state of equilibrium has been disturbed, as in transmitting sound.
    • : an instance of vibratory motion; oscillation; quiver; tremor.
    • : a supernatural emanation, bearing good or ill, that is sensed by or revealed to those attuned to the occult.
    • : Often vibrations. Informal. a general emotional feeling one has from another person or a place, situation, etc.: I usually get good vibrations from him.

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Examples

  • It can be caused by heat, vibrations, magnetic fluctuations, or any host of environmental factors that are hard to control.

  • As with Gough’s rubber, an entropy drop in the metal’s structure requires a rise in the entropy of its atomic vibrations, which heats the material.

  • People associate the rolling sound of a truck with the vibration they feel.

  • A smaller distance means fewer vibrations when a ball hits the bat.

  • With fewer vibrations, players can transfer more hitting power, or rebound energy, to the ball.

  • Every day on the set of 12 Years A Slave there was a high vibration of focus, but that day in particular it was acute.

  • But after the fifth consecutive call—the vibration interrupting my conversation with perplexed hosts—I politely stepped away.

  • Vibration promotes life and vigour, strength and beauty...Vibrate Your Body and Make It Well.

  • One man said when the temblor struck he heard a “roaring sound” and felt a violent vibration—“I never felt like that before.”

  • The hellish, screeching vibration was somehow absorbed by the timber structure of the house.

  • Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.

  • Since this is a law of vibration, it is unscientific to speak of giving an overtone, for all tones contain overtones.

  • Mrs. Vivian had hardly spoken when the sharp little vibration of her door-bell was heard in the hall.

  • From above, through the ceiling, came the vibration of some machine at work, and the machine might have been the loom of time.

  • Perhaps another reason may be named in the wood being so ripe and dry as to permit free vibration.