Other forms: vibrations
A vibration is a rapid trembling movement passing through something. Feel the vibration, engine vibration, damp the vibration.
Unwanted vibration destroys machinery, so engineers spend a great deal of effort on damping it, and resonance is the danger: if a structure is shaken at its own natural frequency the movement grows instead of dying away.
1nounvibrationA rapid trembling movement passing through something.
“You can feel the vibration of the engine through the floor of the boat.”
vibration is a movement.
Latin vibratio comes from vibrare, to shake or brandish.
Latin
vibrātiō — a shaking or brandishing
French
vibration
English, today
vibration
Built from
From French vibration, from Latin vibrātiō (“a shaking or brandishing”), from vibrō (“shake, vibrate”); see vibrate. Morphologically vibrate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA