reverbation

English

Noun

reverbation (countable and uncountable, plural reverbations)

1. (rare) Alternative form of reverberation
   • 1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature‎^[1], 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:

     In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.

   • 1993, Simeon Jordanov Mrchev, “Human Memory - Neurocomputer (MeNeCe Project): Structure For Reverbation Of The Information In N-Peaked Nets (In STMemory)”, in Stan Gielen, Bert Kappen, editors, ICANN ’93: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks‎^[2], Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 82:

     MeNeCe will architectically present the whole sphere with: CENTRE (radialy^[sic]-based structure). ENVIRONMENT (columnic-nestlike networks). PERIPHERY (divergenting and convergentic staphyline-clasteric structures), with described below structure for reverbation of the information in N-peaked nets (by analogy with human Short-Term Memory - STM).

   • 2003 September 8, Simon Haykin, Bernard Widrow, editors, Least-Mean-Square Adaptive Filters‎^[3], volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 211:

     The top one was measured in an office with a reverbation time of about 300ms. The middle one is the impulse response of the passenger cabin of a car (BMW 520) with a reverbation of about 60ms. In the lowest diagram the maximal echo reduction according to Eq. 6.76 is depicted.

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This form is rare enough that it may be considered a misspelling by some speakers.

Anagrams

• verberation