vibration

See also: Vibration

English

Etymology

From French vibration, from Latin vibrātiō (“a shaking or brandishing”), from vibrō (“shake, vibrate”); see vibrate. Morphologically vibrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

vibration (countable and uncountable, plural vibrations)

The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
(physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
A single complete vibrating motion.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 21:
  The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.
(parapsychology) A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  "And the sitters?" "I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own." "They will form a horrible block of vibrations! We must have some of our own sympathetic people to counteract it."
- 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 66:
  "Witches feel that anyone who is against them has to be destroyed. The method is to give the victim what we call a whispering. It is similar to the aborigine ceremony in Australia of singing someone to death. The witches gather in a circle and focus their hate on the persons they have in mind. These vibrations from their minds and voices carry whispers to the one who they are working against."
(by extension, slang, often in the plural) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere.
Synonym: vibe
- 1966, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, “Good Vibrations”, performed by The Beach Boys:
  I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations.
- 1967 October 7, “Parade in Haight-Ashbury Marks ‘Death of the Hippie’”, in New York Times‎^[1], page 26:
  The procession circled the district, symbolically purging the area of its “evil,” which paraders described as the “bad vibrations” from tourists and youths in Hippie clothes not living up to Hippie standards.
- 1974, Ashford & Simpson, “Ain't Nothin' But A Maybe”, in I Wanna Be Selfish:
  Could it be she's just friendly / And that's nothing to get all excited about / On the other hand she could be answering / The good vibrations I'm sendin' out

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Translations

act of vibrating

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: اِهْتِزَاز m (ihtizāz)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: dardara
Bulgarian: трептене (bg) n (treptene), вибриране (bg) n (vibrirane)
Catalan: vibració (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 振動 / 振动 (zh) (zhèndòng), 振盪 / 振荡 (zh) (zhèndàng)
Danish: vibration (da) c
Esperanto: vibrado
Estonian: vibratsioon
Finnish: värähteleminen (fi)
French: vibration (fr) f
Galician: vibración (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Vibration (de) f, Schwingung (de) f
Greek: δόνηση (el) f (dónisi), κραδασμός (el) m (kradasmós)
Hebrew: תנודה f (tnudá), ריטוט m (ritút)
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: titringur (is) m
Indonesian: vibrasi (id)
Italian: vibrazione (it) f
Japanese: 振動 (ja) (しんどう, shindō)
Korean: 진동(振動) (ko) (jindong)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vibrasjon m, vibrering m or f

Nynorsk: vibrasjon m, vibrering f
Occitan: vibracion (oc) f
Portuguese: vibração (pt) f
Romanian: vibrare (ro) f
Russian: вибра́ция (ru) f (vibrácija)
Spanish: vibración (es) f
Swedish: vibration (sv) c
Tagalog: kinig, panginginig
Thai: การสั่นสะเทือน (kaan-sàn-sà-tuan)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: rung động (vi)

periodic process

Bulgarian: вибрация (bg) f (vibracija)
Danish: vibration (da) c
Finnish: värähtely (fi)
German: Vibration (de) f, Schwingung (de) f
Romanian: vibrare (ro) f
Tagalog: kinig

single complete vibrating motion

Bulgarian: вибрация (bg) f (vibracija)
Danish: vibration (da) c
Esperanto: vibro
Finnish: värähdys (fi)
Galician: vibración (gl) f
German: Vibration (de) f, Schwingung (de) f
Greek: δόνηση (el) f (dónisi), κραδασμός (el) m (kradasmós)
Latin: vibrātiō f
Tagalog: kinig

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