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whispering gallery
noun
- a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
whispering gallery
noun
- a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whispering gallery1
First recorded in 1690–1700
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Example Sentences
In the same way that the architecture of a whispering gallery bends and focuses sound waves, WGM microresonators confine and concentrate light in a tiny circular path.
From Science Daily
So when you are in the Mapparium, you are also in a whispering gallery.
From Washington Post
A teenager in Britain fell to his death Monday from the whispering gallery inside St Paul's Cathedral in London.
From Fox News
His research included laser spectroscopy and nonlinear optics as well as microresonators and whispering gallery modes.
From Los Angeles Times
Looking up, she figured out the source of the sound: a vaulted ceiling, similar to the “whispering gallery” in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S.
From Washington Post
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