(n.) The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(2) In addition, several cells showed unusual firing patterns, such as delayed responses and reverberating afterdischarges.
(3) The proposed physical process by which the metaorganization principle is implemented is based on oscillatory reverberation.
(4) The fact, that following the cooling or ablation of the auditory cortex the rhythmic afterdischarge to sound clicks as well as spontaneous spindle bursts keep arising in the medial geniculate body without changing their patterns, militates also against the possibility of thalamocortical reverberation.
(5) In situations with reverberation and less background noise the difference is less marked.
(6) For the reverberant condition, the sentences were played through a room with a reverberation time of 1.2 s. The CVC syllables were removed from the sentences and presented in pairs to ten subjects with audiometrically normal hearing, who judged the similarity of the syllable pairs separately for the nonreverberant and reverberant conditions.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) There are reverberating circuits between the fundus caudati and the medial groups of the nigra characterized by their small cells, between the putamen and the postero-lateral cell groups of the nigra, between the caudatum and the rostral cell groups of the nigra, presumably with the specialization that the lateral caudatum is in two-way connection with the rostro-lateral cell groups of the nigra as is the medial caudatum with the rostro-medial cell group.
(9) Speech recognition was assessed under three levels of room reverberation, each in quiet and noise, for subjects with varying amounts of sensorineural hearing impairment.
(10) Fears the closing of Toyota and Holden plans could trigger recessions in Victoria and South Australia have reverberated through the states as the two car manufacturers announced they will be pulling out in 2017.
(11) A constant shadow with closely spaced high level reverberation echoes is strongly suggestive of a metallic foreign body.
(12) Analyzing these characteristics as well as the positional relationships of reverberation artifacts in the porta hepatis and gallbladder fossa should enable one to suspect the post-cholecystectomy state and differentiate from an abnormal gas collection.
(13) It is proposed that rehabilitative audiological assessments include evaluation of an individual's ability to cope with reverberation and noise.
(14) The stimuli were degraded by reverberation or speech-spectrum noise.
(15) It also changed life in Manus entirely, reverberating through culture, imagination, infrastructure and economy.
(16) These simulated a quiet living room, a classroom, and social events in two settings with different reverberation characteristics.
(17) Our letter, organised by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality , also refers to a disturbing historical echo still reverberating today.
(18) Now that America and China are so intertwined as to be essentially one country – a fact you can’t forget here in San Francisco, where everyone is coding apps for phones made in Shenzhen – Ai’s mashup of the two nations’ oppressed minorities reverberates as a call for reckoning beyond national borders.
(19) It was one of those panicky quick decisions that has long-term reverberations that aren’t necessarily what you want.” Darling and Alexander were adamant that, for all their fears, they made the right decision on the currency.
(20) On the whole, talkers maintained their relative intelligibility across the four environments, although there was one exception which suggested that some voices may be particularly susceptible to degradation due to reverberation.
War
Definition:
(a.) Ware; aware.
(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
(n.) Instruments of war.
(n.) Forces; army.
(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(5) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(6) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(7) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(8) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(9) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(11) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(12) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(13) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(14) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(16) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(17) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(18) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(20) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.