Phrase Hound found 42 phrases and 104 compound words that contain echo. The most common are listed below. Open echo in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 42
- echo chamberA room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.
- light echoA phenomenon caused by light reflected off surfaces distant from the source, and arriving at the observer with a delay relative to this distance, analogous to an echo of sound.
- pre-echoAn early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing.
- re-echoAlternative spelling of reecho: To echo again; to reverberate.
- echo sounderA sonar device used for echo sounding
- echo soundingThe technique of using reflected pulses of sound to determine depth or the location of objects (or fish) under water.
- spin echoThe refocusing of spin magnetisation by a pulse of resonant electromagnetic radiation.
- echo subjectA verb that has the same subject as the preceding verb.
- echo timeThe time between a sound or pulse of radio waves being produced and the receipt of the corresponding echo
- echo timesplural of echo time: The time between a sound or pulse of radio waves being produced and the receipt of the corresponding echo
- echo wordA form of reduplication in South Asian languages, where a word or phrase is repeated with its initial segment or syllable modified, often giving the meaning "and so on".
- echo wordsplural of echo word: A form of reduplication in South Asian languages, where a word or phrase is repeated with its initial segment or syllable modified, often giving the meaning "and so on".
- forward echoSynonym of pre-echo: An early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing.
- tape echoAn audio delay device which records incoming audio to a loop of magnetic tape, then replays it over a series of playback heads before it is erased again by new incoming audio.
- echo poemA poem constructed by the surrealist technique of alternately writing a stanza and then "mirroring" it in some fashion to create the following stanza.
- echo boomerA child of a member of the post-World War II baby boom generation, born in the period extending approximately from the late 1970s or early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
- echo state networkA type of reservoir computer that uses a recurrent neural network with a sparsely connected hidden layer. The weights of output neurons can be learned so that the network can produce or reproduce specific temporal patterns.
- thought echoA form of auditory hallucination, associated with schizophrenia or psychosis, in which the patient hears their thoughts spoken aloud.
- Hahn echoSynonym of spin echo: The refocusing of spin magnetisation by a pulse of resonant electromagnetic radiation.
- echo boomersplural of echo boomer: A child of a member of the post-World War II baby boom generation, born in the period extending approximately from the late 1970s or early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
- echo vowelA paragogic vowel that is a repetition of the final vowel of a word
- echo parakeetPsittacula eques, a parrot endemic to the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and formerly Réunion.
- echo plateAnother term for reverb plate.
- echo subjectsplural of echo subject: A verb that has the same subject as the preceding verb.
- photo echoA form of resonance sometimes observed as a coherent pulse of light after two similar pulses have traversed a medium.
Compound words 104
- anechoicLacking echoes; particularly, designed to absorb sound.
- echolocationThe use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures.
- echoplexTo echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.
- echomailMessages transmitted between bulletin board systems and presented on discussion forums.
- echolaliaThe involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.
- echometryacoustics;
- echographAn instrument that uses ultrasound to produce an echogram as a diagnostic aid.
- echopraxiaThe involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another.
- echogramsonogram
- echogenousechogenic.