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Sympathetic vibration   /sˌɪmpəθˈɛtɪk vaɪbrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Sympathetic vibration

noun
1.
(physics) vibration produced by resonance.





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"Sympathetic vibration" Quotes from Famous Books



... of sound is its increase set up by one body by the sympathetic vibration of a second body. (2) By extension the increase in the amplitude of electric oscillations when the circuit in which they surge has a natural period that is the same, or nearly the same, as the period ...
— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins
... perfect articulation is produced in a telephonic receiver included in the circuit. The gauze transmitter so constructed may be fixed within a wall-box with or without a mouthpiece; but as the sound waves acting directly upon the gauze plates set them into agitation through their sympathetic vibration or by direct impact, no sort of diaphragm or equivalent device is ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various


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