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▸ 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.]
Similar:
reverberate,
reverberation,
resound,
ring,
repeat,
recall,
sound reflection,
reecho,
hear,
resonating,
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Types:
reverberation,
reflection,
echoic memory,
acoustic echo,
electronic echo,
convolution echo,
comb filtering echo,
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