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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A room or enclosure with acoustically reflective walls used in broadcasting and recording to produce echoes or similar sound effects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Music, broadcasting) A room with walls that resonate sound, producing audible echoes; it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
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. - noun In music production, a
sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through asound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to echoes. - noun derogatory, by extension An
insular communication space that is of no interest tooutsiders or refuses their input.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound
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tankhughes commented on the word echo chamber
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"Reminder: the term "echo chamber" was popularised by leaked 2003 memos on how PhRMA spent $1 million to create an "intellectual echo chamber of economists -- a standing network of economists and thought leaders to speak against federal price control regulations through articles and testimony.'" (with accompanying Google Ngram chart)
November 23, 2024