vibrations
Britishplural noun
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instinctive feelings supposedly influencing human communication
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a characteristic atmosphere felt to be emanating from places or objects
Example Sentences
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So the team subjected the capsule to vibrations in the lab to ensure everything would still work after that kind of extreme shaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Scientists at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have now developed a new type of squeezed phonon laser that can precisely control these vibrations at the nanoscale.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Beyond the vibrations, Honda's power-unit is down on power from both the internal combustion engine and electrical system, which can neither recover nor deploy energy at the full permitted 350kW rate.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
But as he listened to hours of Huber’s recordings of underwater sounds and learned more about how the vibrations of the sound acted as a catalyst to the reaction, he got on board.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Even when someone would find themselves in a place where they might be able to rest, the sound of the engine, its vibrations in the ground, took over.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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