Vibraculum
(||Vi*brac"u*lum) n.; pl. Vibracula [NL., dim. from L. vibrare to vibrate.] (Zoöl.) One of
the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are
regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.
Vibrancy
(Vi"bran*cy) n. The state of being vibrant; resonance.
Vibrant
(Vi"brant) a. [L. vibrans, p. pr.: cf. F. vibrant. See Vibrate.] Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as,
vibrant drums. Longfellow.
Vibrate
(Vi"brate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vibrate ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vibrating.] [L. vibratus, p. p. of vibrare,
v. t. & v. i., to snake, brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, vibrate. See
Waive and cf. Whip, v. t.]
1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
3. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion.
Holder.
Star to star vibrates light.
Tennyson. Vibrate
(Vi"brate) v. i.
1. To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when
disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
2. To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as
the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
3. To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear. Pope.
4. To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
Vibratile
(Vi"bra*tile) a. [Cf. F. vibratile.] Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of
vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.
Vibratility
(Vi`bra*til"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. vibratilité.] The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration
or oscillation. Rush.
Vibration
(Vi*bra"tion) n. [L. vibratio: cf. F. vibration.]
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.
As a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Longfellow. 2. (Physics) 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.
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
