meaning of echo
1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
2. Fig. : Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
3. A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
4. A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
5. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
6. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
7. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
8. echo 1. A topic group on FidoNets echomail system. Compare newsgroup. 2. A Unix command that just prints its arguments. [Jargon File] echo cancellation A process which removes unwanted echoes from the signal on a telephone line. Echoes are usually caused by impedance mismatches along an analogue line. ECHT European Conference on Hypertext. ECIP2 An Esprit project on the definition of a specification language at the requirement level. ECIS European Committee for Interoperable Systems Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
9. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped
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