Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ECHO

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Definitions of ECHO

1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
3. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
4. (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
5. (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
6. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
7. (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
8. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
9. (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
10. (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
11. (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
12. (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
13. (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
14. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion etc.: to spread or reverberate.
15. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
16. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
17. (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
18. (Greek mythology) An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.
19. (astronomy) 60 Echo, a main belt asteroid.
20. (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
21. (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
22. (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion etc.).
23. A number of places in USA:

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Examples of Using ECHO in a Sentence

• Animal echolocation, non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate.
• Many user-level programs, services, and utilities (including awk, echo, ed) were also standardized, along with required program-level services (including basic I/O: file, terminal, and network).
• In telecommunications, a forward echo is the propagation of a signal reflection in the same direction as the original signal and consisting of energy reflected back by one discontinuity and then forward again by another discontinuity.
• in an automatic gain control or echo suppressor circuit, the time interval between the end of the enabling signal and the instant at which suppression ceases,.
• Roman authors tend to echo the earlier Greek sources, but from around the end of the millennium there are indications that the name Tartessos had fallen out of use and the city may have been lost to flooding, although several authors attempt to identify it with cities of other names in the area.
• The allegations concern meetings between Agere and Microsoft in 2002 and 2003, where the companies discussed selling Agere's stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation technology to Microsoft.
• The word "Suwannee" may either be a corruption of the Spanish San Juan ("Saint John") or from the Cherokee sawani ("echo river").
• The name Paoro (meaning echo) appears in John White's English translation of a Māori story attributed by him to the Ngāti Hau tribe, as a personal name meaning 'Echo'.
• The militiamen followed at the double-quick and hurrahing enthusiastically for General Washington brought him to the porch and evoked from him in reply a good natured and fatherly speech which the soldiers cheered to the echo.

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