reverberate

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Do you doubt that Buchberger's algorithm will reverberate down through the millenia?

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ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"

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verb

ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"

verb

have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

verb

be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reverberate.

verb

ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"

verb

have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

verb

be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"

verb

to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"

verb

spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

See also: bounce, resile, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, ricochet

verb

treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore"

Example sentences

Do you doubt that Buchberger's algorithm will reverberate down through the millenia?

He is consistently trying to upset the status quo. This is a message that should reverberate among any of us trying to shake up an established industry, or trying to create a market that simply didn't exist before.

The whole renderer would have to be rewritten from scratch, and given how the Minecraft codebase appears to be a complete mess architecture-wise, the changes would probably reverberate everywhere.