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vibrating, ppl. a.
(see the vb.)
[f. vibrate v.]
1. Of, or characterized by, vibration; causing vibration; vibratory.
1685Boyle Effects Motion ix. 108 That a vibrating motion is thereby produced, may be argued by the dancing of the water. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Vibrating-Motion, is a very quick and short Motion of the solid Parts of Bodies, caused by the Pulse or Stroke of some Body upon them. 1765Phil. Trans. LV. 105 This weight supported him in a vibrating state. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 252 The vibrating force of arteries. 1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 313 The angular velocities of the vibrating system.
2. That vibrates; having a vibratory motion; oscillating.
17..Ramsay Ep. to Friend at Florence 33 The vib'rating harmonious strings, And breathing tubes, which the soft eunuch sings. 1743Emerson Fluxions 230 The Center of Oscillation is the Point in the Axis of a vibrating Body [etc.]. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xviii. 154 Suppose a vibrating string to give the lowest C of the pianoforte. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. i. 225 The little songster's organ of voice..is a vibrating instrument, resembling..the reed of a clarionet. 1879Stainer Music of Bible 149 A sistrum, either with three rings on each bar, or with three vibrating bars.
b. Of machines or their parts, implements, etc.
1831–3Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 188/1 Vibrating engine... It may be worked either by high or low pressure steam, or by means of a vacuum. 1837L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 711 The vibrating lever, called the tumbling-bob. 1842Francis Dict. Arts s.v., [In the] Vibrating Steam Engine,..the steam cylinder vibrates upon two hollow gudgeons. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2709/2 Vibrating-propeller... Vibrating-roller. 1878Prescott Sp. Telephone (1879) 36 In the latest form of transmitter..the vibrating diaphragm is done away with altogether.
c. Of insects, etc.: Having vibratile antennæ or cilia. rare.
1870tr. Pouchet's Universe iii. iii. 163 Some ichneumons, or vibrating flies, are much more rapacious and bold.
3. Of sound: Vibrant.
1849James Woodman ix, The swinging of the great bell, as it continued to pour forth its loud vibrating call for assistance. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 754 In different cases it [i.e. a pericardial friction-fremitus] is described as harsh and grating, rasping, vibrating, or creaking.
Hence viˈbratingly adv.
1835New Monthly Mag. XLIV. 280 A note to which all the tender sympathies of Miss Fanny vibratingly responded. |