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echo | American Dictionary

echo
noun[ C ]
us/ˈek·oʊ/pluralechoes

echonoun[C] (SOUND)

a sound that is heard again after it has been reflected off a surface such as a wall or a cliff:
The cave was filled with the echoes of our voices.

echonoun[C] (SIMILAR QUALITY)

a quality or other detail that is similar to and makes you remember something else:
The son’s behavior is a clear echo of his father’s.
echo
verb
us/ˈek·oʊ/present tenseechoes | present participleechoing | past tense and past participleechoed

echoverb (MAKE SOUNDS)

[ I ]
to fill a place with repeating sounds, or to be filled with these sounds:
The sound of footsteps echoed through the hall.

echoverb (REPEAT)

[ T ]
to express or think what someone else has said or thought:
Brownell’s comments echoed the opinion of the majority of the commission members.

Examples of echo

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The detection of unexpected coherent echoes by incoherent scatter radars raises important questions concerning the generation mechanisms that spill over into coherent radars.
First, however, there is the need for a systematic exploration of the mechanisms that can produce the instabilities behind the coherent echoes.
The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the mass mechanical reproduction of the modern celebrity image.
Her description of exercises echoes that of the teacher's voice within the rehearsal room.
A persistent pinkish noise sets in, along with throbbing echoes of the already echoed sounds, until the whole thing just cuts out at 1457.
He had been sensitive to the echoing murmur of the mountains, that communicating of sounds destined to intoxicate sympathetic souls.
The echoes themselves produce more echoes; the others spawn even more others.
The indefinite placing of this period is echoed by the very ambiguity of the character himself.
The echoes and messages of this united base did percolate to the lower levels.
Furthermore, this echoes the findings in studies of cognitive aging discussed above, indicating that deficits of dynamic grouping can be part of several different disorders.
Serial echoes were reviewed in 61 children both preand post-primary procedure (mean 17 months post-procedure, range 245).
When people demand to have 'choices, not echoes', are they truly complaining about not having distinct choices or just about facing a bad outcome?
In the conclusion to the section (bars 48-55), repeated echoes of a cadential gesture revisit and summarize the arguments heard earlier.
Boumans introduces and illustrates two theses that are echoed at several other stages later in the volume.
Measurement of tissue deformation, with applied force, by analysis of the returning ultrasound echoes, was described over 20 years ago [8,9].
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