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2. Verb. (third-person singular of echo) ¹

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Definition of Echoes

1. echo [n] - See also: echo

Medical Definition of Echoes

1. Wave packets (pulses) which have been reflected or otherwise returned to the detector, which are sufficiently delayed and retain sufficient magnitude so that they are perceived as a signal distinct from the one transmitted directly. (In other words, just like sound echoes, only for analogous phenomena with other waves.) (09 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of Echoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"As there are a number of such ' extraordinary echoes ' abroad just now, ... There are echoes that bore us, like Blues, With the latest smart mot they have ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"For what are memories but echoes of departed joys and sorrows ; and reveries are but the lengthened reverberations of sounds which rung upon our hearts in ..."

3. The Electrical Review (1878)
"To these echoes I attached a fundamental significance. There was no visible reflecting service from which they could come. On some days, with hardly a cloud ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1875)
"And considering the hundreds of shots fired at the South Foreland with the attention specially directed to the aerial echoes, when no single case occurred ..."

5. The American Catalogue of Books: (original and Reprints,) Published in the by James Kelly (1871)
"echoes from the Living Grave. By a Convict in Sing Sing State Prison. ... ..1889 echoes from the South: Speeches, Proclamations, etc. 12mo. cl., $1 50. ..."

6. The Genial Showman by Edward Peron Hingston (1870)
"We'll wake the echoes for him, and give him a good time." I thanked my warm-hearted friend for his expressions of good-will ; declined to accept another ..."

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