vibration : Idioms & Phrases
Amplitude of vibration
- the maximum displacement of a vibrating particle or body from its position of rest.
Webster 1913
Phase of vibration
- any part of the path described by a particle or body in making a complete vibration, in distinction from other parts, as while moving from one extreme to the other, or on one side of the line of rest, in distinction from the opposite. Two particles are said to be in the same phase when they are moving in the same direction and with the same velocity, or in corresponding parts of their paths.
Webster 1913
sympathetic vibration
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noun (physics) vibration produced by resonance
WordNet
Wave of vibration
(Physics) , a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body.
