Meaning

The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated..

Definitions by Sense

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. (parapsychology) A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.
5. (by extension, slang, often in the plural) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere.

Example Sentences

The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.

"And the sitters?" "I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own." "They will form a horrible block of vibrations! We must have some of our own sympathetic people to counteract it."

"Witches feel that anyone who is against them has to be destroyed. The method is to give the victim what we call a whispering. It is similar to the aborigine ceremony in Australia of singing someone to death. The witches gather in a circle and focus their hate on the persons they have in mind. These vibrations from their minds and voices carry whispers to the one who they are working against."

I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations.

The procession circled the district, symbolically purging the area of its “evil,” which paraders described as the “bad vibrations” from tourists and youths in Hippie clothes not living up to Hippie standards.

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