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vibration

/vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/noun3 syllables

Vibration means: a shaky motion.

Synonyms for vibration8

noun, as in a shaky motion

shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, palpitation

noun, as in the act of vibrating

quiver, quivering

noun, as in (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

oscillation

noun, as in a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

What does vibration mean?4

noun

1

a shaky motion“the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe”

2

the act of vibrating

3

(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

4

a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively“that place gave me bad vibrations”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with vibration?60

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Vibration in a sentence

  • An alveolar ejective has voiceless phonation, meaning it is produced without vocal cord vibration.Vanilla
  • This magic crystal will help eliminate negative vibrations.Hybrid
  • Do not place the console or accessories on surfaces that are unstable, tilted or subject to vibration.unknown
  • Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.unknown
  • The larger church organs use infrasound, which people do not hear, but feel as vibrations in their bodies.AlanF_US
  • The windows have no glass, of course, as that would be shattered to smithereens by the vibrations.Cangarejo
  • Matter is nothing more than the vibration of a quantum field—the void does not exist.carlosalberto
  • Cats sense vibrations with their whiskers.Amastan

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Forms of vibration

as a noun

plural
vibrations