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# vibration

noun (a vibration, vibrations)

«vibration» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A quick small shaking movement backwards and forwards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#m1)
2. In science, a movement that makes sound or travels through a material. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science, sound is made by vibrations that travel through air, water or solids to our ears; louder sounds have bigger vibrations and higher sounds have faster vibrations. In everyday life you feel vibrations from trains, music or a buzzing phone. Earthquakes send vibrations through the ground. Phrases: feel the vibration, sound vibrations, vibration of the string.

### Examples

- I felt the vibration of the train through the floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#x1)
- Sound is caused by vibrations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#x2)
- The earthquake's vibrations shook the houses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#x3)
- Faster vibrations give a higher pitch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#x4)
- The phone's vibration woke me up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#x5)
- Snakes can feel vibrations in the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a vibration, vibrations; sometimes uncountable for the general idea. Comes from "vibrate". In science: bigger vibration = louder; faster vibration = higher pitch.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «vibration» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«vibration» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vibration.html) on Mova free.