vibrations

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These vibrations can travel through a material as collective waves known as phonons.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

The retired nurse, who lives on Attleboro Lane, claimed vibrations caused by heavy machinery had damaged their property: "It's destroyed our home, I'm embarrassed about home, it's falling apart."

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

That might include, she further fantasizes, a technology tool you don’t even notice but that focuses your attention to sound vibrations the way glasses give clarity to blurry vision.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The vibrations can feel so strange to first-timers that they forget to breathe, or maybe they haven’t eaten beforehand, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

While Planck proposed that molecules’ vibrations were quantized, Einstein proposed that light came in little packets of energy called photons.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife