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# vibration

«vibration» in Mova's school dictionary: **A quick small shaking movement backwards and forwards** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a vibration, vibrations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A quick small shaking movement backwards and forwards. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Snakes have no outer ears and hear little of sounds in the air, but they feel vibrations through the ground and their jaws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/10/)
- [Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect from a leaf or a raindrop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/7/)
- [Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/16/)
- [Sound is a wobble, or vibration, passed on through air, water or solid things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/5/)
- [A bigger vibration makes a louder sound; a faster vibration makes a higher sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vibration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.