Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reverberation

Reverberation , noun

[CF. French réverbération.]

The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.