echoes
noun
Meaning
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
- (of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off a surface and return.
- To reflect back (a sound).
- (by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
- To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- (whist) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- The visual image formed by an echocardiograph.
- The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart.
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