vibration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A continuous shaking movement, or the act of shaking quickly back and forth.

   You can feel the vibration of the engine through the floor.

2. 2
   noun

   A feeling or mood that you sense about a place or person.

   That old house gave me bad vibrations.

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

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