Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small vibration. Also
vibratiuncule . See the quotation under vestigium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A small vibration.
Etymologies
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First used by the English philosopher David Hartley in his 1749 work Observations on Man; from New Latin vibratiuncula, diminutive form of Latin vibrātio ("vibration").
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mollusque commented on the word vibratiuncle
Then it had not been tagged as knowledge to be held for later retrieval, and I would have forgotten it completely had it not been for the sight of the CVS bag, similar enough to the milk-carton bag to trigger vibratiuncles of comparison.
--Nicholson Baker, 1988, The Mezzanine, p. 8
June 23, 2010