Other forms: reverberations
Reverberation is an echo that keeps sounding, or a lasting effect. The reverberation of the bell, reverberations across Europe, long reverberation.
In acoustics it is measured as reverberation time, the seconds a sound takes to die away, and it is what makes a cathedral sound like a cathedral. The figurative use means consequences still being felt.
1nounreverberationAn echo that keeps sounding, or a lasting effect.
“The reverberation of the church bells could be heard across the whole valley.”
reverberation is an echo.
Latin reverberatio comes from reverberare, to beat back, from re plus verberare, to lash.
Medieval Latin
reverberatio
Old French
reverberation
English, today
reverberation
From Old French reverberation, from Medieval Latin reverberatio. Morphologically reverberate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA