vibro-, vibr- +

To vibrate.

1. To vibrate back or in return.
2. To vibrate again.

1. Pulsing or throbbing with energy or activity: "the vibrant streets of a big city".
2. Vigorous, lively, and vital.
3. Exhibiting or characterized by rapid, rhythmic movement back and forth or to and fro; vibrating.
4. Produced as a result of vibration; resonant or resounding: "They sang the song with vibrant voices."
5. Relatively high on the scale of brightness: "The colors of the painting had a vibrant hue."
6. Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant.

A percussion instrument consisting of a series of metal bars, arranged as in a xylophone, and characterized by the vibrato that can be given to the notes, an effect produced either by electrically rotated vanes in the tube resonators under the bars or electronically.

A stiff hair or the stiff hairs within the nostrils at the anterior nares.

1. To move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, as a pendulum; to oscillate.
2. To move to and fro or up and down quickly and repeatedly; to quiver; to tremble.
3. With reference to sounds, to produce or have a quivering or vibratory effect; to resound.
4. To thrill, as with an emotional response.
5. To move between alternatives or extremes; to fluctuate; to vacillate.

1. Characterized by vibration.
2. Capable of or adapted to vibratory motion.

1. The quality or state of being vibratile.
2. A disposition to vibration or oscillation.

1. The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
2. A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear.

The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.

3. Vibration and oscillation are both used, in mechanics, of the swinging, or rising and falling, motion of a suspended or balanced body; the latter term more appropriately, as signifying such motion produced by gravity, and of any degree of slowness, while the former applies especially to the quick, short motion to and fro which results from elasticity, or the action of molecular forces among the particles of a body when disturbed from their position of rest, as in a spring.

Amplitude of vibration, the maximum displacement of a vibrating particle or body from its position of rest. Phase of vibration, any part of the path described by a particle or body in making a complete vibration, in distinction from other parts, as while moving from one extreme to the other, or on one side of the line of rest, in distinction from the opposite.

4. A supernatural emanation, bearing good or ill, that is sensed by or revealed to those attuned to the occult.
5. Often, vibrations; informal: A general emotional feeling one has from another person or a place, situation, etc.: "I usually get good vibrations when I am around her."

A distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively; such as, "That place gave me bad vibrations."

In music, a trembling or pulsating effect caused by rapid but minute variations in pitch during the production of a tone.

The part of a mechanical vibrator that is applied directly to the patient.

1. Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
2. Relating to or causing vibrations.

The graphic record of the vibrations of the heart as recorded on the chest wall.

The technique of recording vibrocardiograms.