reverberant
pronunciation
How to pronounce reverberant in British English:
UK [rɪ'vɜ:bərənt]
How to pronounce reverberant in American English:
US [rɪ'vɜbərənt]
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- Adjective:
- having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
Word Origin
- reverberant (adj.)
- 1570s, from French réverbérant or directly from Latin reverberantem (nominative reverberans), present participle of reverberare (see reverberation).
Example
- 1. Sound intensity on an absorber in reverberant conditions .
- 2. Bach wrote music for reverberant spaces as well as for intimate rooms .
- 3. Engineering metheds for small , movable sources in reverberant fields .
- 4. The early basilican churches were highly reverberant even with open windows and the pace and form of church music had to adjust to the architecture to be understood .
- 5. In europe , prehistoric tribes sought shelter in caves and later constructed increasingly large and reverberant temples and churches .