Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.

Etymologies

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Compare French vibratilité.

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Examples

  • The gun pops locks easily thanks to its 6 different picks and its "strong vibratility."

    technabob 2009

  • Sometimes, again, even when the tints had not changed, after the pricked and labored surface had seemed about to quicken in the heat, to assume the vibratility of living skin, -- even at the last hour all the labor of the workers proved to have been wasted; for the fickle substance rebelled against their efforts, producing only crinklings grotesque as those upon the rind of a withered fruit, or granulations like those upon the skin of a dead bird from which the feathers have been rudely plucked.

    Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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