echometry

Example Sentences

• "A-men, Ar-men, Am-men, and Ah-men, and every other prefix and accentuation of men, that the love of variety could suggest, or the art of echometry command, were poured forth with a vigor and energy, that common throats would have "swelled to bursting night.""
• "Blanc, in his Echometry, at the end of his first book of the sphere, teaches the method of making an artificial Echo."
• "although construction of the Banqueting House began a few months before Jones could have had the benefit of Biancani's echometry, Jones was immersed in the Bitruvian tradition and would have been aware of the importance given to resonance and echo in the De Architectura."
• "But the resulting theoretical formalization, echometry, was foreshadowed by religious and doctrinal considerations that authorized the consideration of acoustics at the level of dogma, as we can see in the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux, for instance:"
• "An increasing interest in the propagation of sound was collected by the Jesuit Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624), who published in 1620 the essay Sphaera Mundi [7], whose third paragraph is titled Echometria, id est Geometrica tractatio de Echo (Echometry, i.e., the Geometric Treatise of Echo)."
• "The science of echometry is a capricious science. The millionaire was disgusted, when his rich ruttish voice failed to produce a response; he was more disgusted on being told that to no one but the little son of his own gamekeeper would the echo reply at all."