Usually means: Repetition of sound by reflection.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Echo, echo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Echo, echo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Echo, echo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. echo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Echo, echo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Echo, echo: Wordnik
  7. echo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. echo: Wiktionary
  9. echo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. echo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. echo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ECHO: Dictionary.com
  13. echo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. echo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Echo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. echo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. echo: Rhymezone
  19. Echo (nt), echo, echo (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. echo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ECHO: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Echo, Echo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. echo: Free Dictionary
  24. echo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Echo: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. echo: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. ECHO: Band Terms
  2. Echo: Global Glossary
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. echo-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  7. Echo: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  8. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  9. ECHO: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Numa DERIVATIVES ACRONYMS (No longer online)
  2. echo: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. echo: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Echo: Game Dictionary
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Echo (computing), echo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ECHO: UK Medical Acronyms
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. echo: Medical dictionary
  5. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. echo (v.): Cats
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ECHO: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. echo: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. echo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. echo: The Folk File

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. echo: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Echo: Bay Area Video Preservation
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. ECHO: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  8. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  10. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  11. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  12. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
noun:  An utterance repeating what has just been said.
noun:  (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
noun:  (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
noun:  (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
noun:  (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
noun:  (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
noun:  (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
noun:  An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
verb:  (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
verb:  (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
verb:  (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
noun:  (Greek mythology) An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.
noun:  (astronomy) 60 Echo, a main belt asteroid.
noun:  (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography. [(medicine) The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart.]
noun:  (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram. [(medicine) The visual image formed by an echocardiograph.]

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