| reverberant | (adj) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected, Ant. unreverberant, Example: a reverberant room; the reverberant booms of cannon |
| reverberate | (v) have a long or continuing effect, Example: The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life |
| reverberate | (v) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves, Example: the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building |
| reverberate | (v) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace, Example: reverberate ore |
| reverberatory furnace | (n) a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace |
| Reverberant | a. [ L. reverberans, p. pr. : cf. F. réverbérant. See Reverberate. ] Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Reverberate | v. t. Who, like an arch, reverberates |
| Reverberate | v. i. |
| Reverberate | a. [ L. reverberatus, p. p. of reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod. ] |
| Reverberation | n. [ CF. F. réverbération. ] The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; |
| Reverberative | a. Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. [ 1913 Webster ] This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Reverberator | n. One who, or that which, produces reverberation. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Reverberatory | a. Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Reverberatory | n. A reverberatory furnace. [ 1913 Webster ] |