echo
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin echo from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhō) from ἠχή (ēkhē), “‘sound’”)
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- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- (computing): The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
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terms derived from echo
[edit] Translations
a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer
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the displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed
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the letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet
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[edit] Verb
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to echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)
- (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off of a surface and return to someone who has heard it already.
- (by extension, transitive) To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.
- (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
- Sid echoed his father's point of view.
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to repeat back what another has just said
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[edit] Spanish
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echo
- First-person singular indicative of echar.
