vibrating

At rest they may give some garbage reading, but when they're vibrating, they accurately measure how the structure is responding.

One thing in that article bothers me though: it talks about the wave itself as vibrating, e.g.

And the smart one can't be made to stop vibrating over every reply to your dumb tweets?

It is mainly interacted with by vibrating and showing you a notification and swiping it away.

There's also the wear and tear on your body from crouching over someone with vibrating tools.

Underneath is vibrating button that will show blind people that it's green without a sound.

Using your own words maybe it's more correct to say that space is vibrating?

Maybe if people's skulls started vibrating in time with the woodpecker [0] or something I'd believe it.

Often times they are just on fire, or are vibrating, or losing pieces...

It was mind-blowing to realize that the acoustic waves vibrating my eardrums were directly powered by the radio waves transmitted from the broadcast antenna.

And yeah- with my watch vibrating, I can leave the phone on silent all the time.

I frequently used to miss text messages, or even phone calls because I wouldn't feel my iPhone vibrating in my pocket.

In 3-D materials, the collective state of those vibrating atoms is known as phonons." What does it mean to say that heat propagates as a wave rather than as vibrations of atoms?

"A light wave that is vibrating in more than one plane is referred to as unpolarized light." But how does a wave vibrate?

Sure, it does make predictions (like tiny bits a vibrating energy or "strings" are the most fundamental thing in the universe), but that's a lot like playing solitaire in windows and then proclaiming it a bad OS.