/ri verr'beuh ray"sheuhn/ , n.
1. a reechoed sound.
2. the fact of being reverberated or reflected.
3. something that is reverberated: Reverberations from the explosion were felt within a six-mile radius.
4. an act or instance of reverberating.
5. Physics. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped, caused by multiple reflection of the sound within a closed space.
6. the act or process of subjecting something to reflected heat, as in a reverberatory furnace.
[ 1350-1400; ME reverberacioun reverberation- (s. of reverberatio ). See REVERBERATE, -ION ]