echo
回声,回音,回响,呼应
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plural ech·oes.
- : a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
- : a sound heard again near its source after being reflected.
- : any repetition or close imitation, as of the ideas or opinions of another.
- : a person who reflects or imitates another.
- : a sympathetic or identical response, as to sentiments expressed.
- : a lingering trace or effect.
- : Classical Mythology. a mountain nymph who pined away for love of the beautiful youth Narcissus until only her voice remained.
- : Cards. the play of a high card and then a low card in the suit led by one's partner as a signal to continue leading the suit, as in bridge, or to lead a trump, as in whist.
- : Electronics. the reflection of a radio wave, as in radar or the like.
- : U.S. Aerospace. one of an early series of inflatable passive communications satellites.
- : a word used in communications to represent the letter E.
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The discovery of coronavirus in the bathroom of an unoccupied apartment in Guangzhou, China, suggests the airborne pathogen may have wafted upwards through drain pipes, an echo of a large SARS outbreak in Hong Kong 17 years ago.
Between 2011 and 2015, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft mapped the craters of perpetual darkness, and confirmed that they match up with the pattern of radar echoes.
This could exacerbate the problem Eli Pariser pointed out in The Filter Bubble years ago—that is, the tendency of the modern internet to shunt users into echo chambers where they are shielded from contrary views.
Around the world, seismometers don’t just pick up loud echoes of earthquakes rumbling through the subsurface.
Then, they listen for the echoes from the sound waves bouncing off objects in their surroundings.
I hope I can be forgiven for finding this echo more than merely coincidental.
There was only one phone left and when it would ring, the bell would echo, oddly, off the walls.
Later in an Echo of Moscow interview Kadyrov said that the operation would be over in 20 minutes.
In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged.
Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.
The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.