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echo Definition

echo (ek′ō)

noun pl. -·oes

    1. the repetition of a sound by reflection of sound waves from a surface
    2. a sound so produced
    1. any repetition or imitation of the words, style, ideas, etc. of another
    2. a person who thus repeats or imitates
  3. sympathetic response
  4. Electronics a radar wave reflected from an object, appearing as a spot of light on a radarscope
  5. Gr. Myth. a nymph who, because of her unreturned love for Narcissus, pines away until only her voice remains
  6. Music
    1. a soft repetition of a phrase
    2. an organ stop for producing the effect of echo
  7. Radio, TV the reception of two similar and almost simultaneous signals because one of them has been delayed slightly by reflection from the E layer in transmission

Etymology: ME ecco < L echo < Gr ēchō < IE base *(s)waĝh-, var. of *wag-, to cry out > L vagire, OE swogan, to sound, roar

intransitive verb -·oed, -·o·ing

  1. to resound with an echo; reverberate
  2. to be repeated as or like an echo

transitive verb

    1. to repeat (another's words, ideas, etc.)
    2. to repeat the words, etc. of (another person)
  2. to repeat or reflect (sound) from a surface

echo Related Forms
echo·ey′ (ek′ō ē′) adjective
echo Synonyms

echo

n.

repetition, imitation, reverberation; see answer 1.

echo Synonyms

echo

v.

repeat, mimic, reverberate, resound; see imitate 2, sound 1.

echo Telecom Definition
Also known as the rain-barrel effect, echo is signal reflection. At any point in a circuit where an electromagnetic wave meets a discontinuity, a portion of the wave is reflected back in the direction of the transmitter. Such discontinuities can be caused by impedance mismatches, mismatches between line and balancing networks, and irregular spacing of loading coils. Echo is imperceptible in human-to-human conversations as long as the echo return is weak and the total roundtrip delay is not longer than 30
echo Usage Examples

Object

  • sentiment: We echo the sentiments in the article written by the Reverend Andrew Phillips on the 9th of January.
  • footstep: It isn't all echoing footsteps tho, why not go and find out what life was like in Victorian Colchester?
  • affirmation: There are also a number of background echoed affirmations, which pan from left to right in your headphones.
  • refrain: His comments echo an increasingly common refrain ringing out across the globe.
  • vocal: We are lured into a haze of echoing vocals, stuttering beats and bleeps.
  • remark: To echo the remarks of a Treasury spokesman, I'm glad these guys aren't my accountants.

Converse of object

  • awaken: It will awaken an echo so powerful as to exceed the most optimistic expectations.
  • hear: Let mountains speak for themselves and students may only hear the echoes of their hopes and fears or silence.
  • evoke: Despite the remains being at best fragmentary, they retain the capacity to evoke forcefully an echo of the power of ancient Rome.

Adjective modifier

  • faint: Radio signals bounce off obstacles like buildings, adding a delayed faint echo to the intended signal.
  • eerie: The majority of activists were met with a huge police presence drafted in from across the country in eerie echoes of the miners strike.
  • hollow: The city seems jist empty, hollow echoes in the air.
  • subtle: Tweaking the EQ to enhance either bass or treble strings and adding either room ambiance or subtle echoes to each side of the track.

Modifies a noun

  • sounder: Its small size also makes locating it on an echo sounder difficult.
  • canceller: In this project, an acoustic echo canceller dealing with 8 kHz sampled audio signal is designed.
  • waveform: Results are presented for measurements of the single element properties of electrical impedance, pulse echo waveform and spectrum, directivity and cross talk.
  • chamber: They linked them up, drum machine to synths - via pedals and through echo chambers then pressed Play!

Modifying Another Word

  • eerily: I could hear it echoing eerily off the walls.

Noun used with modifier

  • flutter: When there are parallel reflecting surfaces in a room they can cause flutter echoes which are disturbing.
  • radar: The paper discusses the possibility that horizontal advection combined with horizontal gradients in the plasma density can contribute to the radar echoes.
echo Quotes

Art is dedicated echo.

—Sandys, George

She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and hammer angled right. The sound of that relaxed alluring blow, Its co-opted and obliterated echo, Taught me to hit, taught me to loosen, Taught me between the hammer and the block To face the music. Teach me now to listen, To strike it rich behind the linear black.

—Heaney, SeamusJustin

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life.Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courageöthey exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

—Milton,John

Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se re¤  pondent. Scents, colours, and sounds echo one another. "

—Baudelaire, Charles

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

—Pope, Alexander

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

—Pasternak, Boris

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

—Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)