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- English Word Vibrate Definition To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
- English Word Vibrate Definition To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
- English Word Vibrate Definition To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
- English Word Vibratile Definition Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.
- English Word Vibratility Definition The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.
- English Word Vibrating Definition of Vibrate
- English Word Vibration Definition The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
- English Word Vibration Definition A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
- English Word Vibratiuncle Definition A small vibration.
- English Word Vibrative Definition ; vibratory.
- English Word Vibratory Definition Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
- English Word Vibrio Definition A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
- English Word Vibriones Definition of Vibrio
- English Word Vibrios Definition of Vibrio
- English Word Vibrissa Definition One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.
- English Word Vibrissa Definition The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.
- English Word Vibrissae Definition of Vibrissa
- English Word Vibroscope Definition An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
- English Word Vibroscope Definition An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
- English Word Viburnum Definition A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.