Vibrator
One that vibrates, or causes vibration or oscillation of any kind; A trembler, as of an electric bell. A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system. A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper. An oscillator. An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion. A vibrating reed, esp. in a reed organ. Any of various vibrating devices, as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens. An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a molding machine to shake the pattern loose. a small electrical device held in the hand, with a motor that causes the device and hand to vibrate, and is used for vibratory massage.
Nearby words
VibrateTo move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
VibratileAdapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.
VibratilityThe quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.
VibrationThe act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
VibratiuncleA small vibration.
VibrativeVibrating; vibratory.
VibratoryConsisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
VibrioA genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
VibrissaOne of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.
VibrographAn instrument to observe and record vibrations.
VibroscopeAn instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
ViburnumA genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental plants, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.