vibration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

   that place gave me bad vibrations

2. 2
   noun

   in physics, a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

   The vibration of the light intensity made the experiment far more complicated.

3. 3
   noun

   A single complete vibrating motion.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.

   "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."

5. 5
   noun

   An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere.

   I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of vibrating

7. 7
   noun

   a shaky motion

8. 8
   noun

   The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.

Etymology

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