Noun
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Norman Mailer
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. James Fenton
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard. Bill Dixon
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region. Madeleine Albright
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. Maurice Druon
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. Phillip Guston