vibration

See also: Vibration

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

vibration (countable and uncountable, plural vibrations)

1. The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
2. (physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
3. A single complete vibrating motion.
4. (slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.

Related terms

• vibrant

• vibrate

• vibratiuncle

• vibrato

• vibrator

Translations

act of vibrating

• Arabic: اهتزاز‎ (ihtizāz)
• Catalan: vibració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 振動 (zh), 振动 (zh) (zhèndòng), 振盪 (zh), 振荡 (zh) (zhèndàng)

• Danish: vibration (da) c
• Estonian: vibratsioon
• Finnish: värähteleminen (fi)
• French: vibration (fr) f
• German: Vibration (de) f, Schwingung (de) f
• Greek: δόνηση (el) f (dónisi), κραδασμός (el) m (kradasmós)
• Icelandic: titringur (is) m
• Italian: vibrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 振動 (ja) (しんどう, shindō)

• Korean: 진동 (ko) (jindong) (振動)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vibrasjon m, vibrering m or f

  Nynorsk: vibrasjon m, vibrering 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)
• Vietnamese: rung động (vi)

periodic process

• Danish: vibration (da) c
• Finnish: värähtely (fi)
• German: Vibration (de) f, Schwingung (de) f

• Romanian: vibrare (ro) f
• Tagalog: kinig

single complete vibrating motion

• Danish: vibration (da) c
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} titreşim (tr)

Further reading

• vibration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vibration in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.bʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

vibration f (plural vibrations)

1. vibration

Related terms

• vibrer

Further reading

• “vibration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).