It is caused, in other words, by atoms vibrating and passing such vibrations on to their neighbours.
A LIFETIME or even a few years down the pits left many coal miners with crippling illnesses lung diseases and vibration white finger, a debilitating numbness of hands caused by using vibrating drilling and cutting equipment.
Like x and y in algebra, scientific terms, such as Hartley's "vibrations" or contemporary physicists' "particles," stand for unknowns, for which vibrating strings or grains of sand provide only loose and misleading analogies.
It can be described as a forced vibration, since the mass, damping, and restoring force typical of any mechanical vibrating system are present.
Google's built-in mapping for Android Wear works surprisingly well for walking directions, vibrating when it's time to take another street complete with on-screen directions.
My teeth weren't even vibrating this morning.
This morning I woke with the niggling bastardy little ghost of last night's red wine vibrating through my head and dehydrating my synapses.
And four weeks after returning from Washington DC, they were in a restaurant, celebrating their birthdays – "We're a week apart" – when they became aware that their phones were vibrating repeatedly.
Sex expert Annabelle Knight talked Phillip Schofield and co-host Christine Bleakley through a selection of toys including blindfolds, a feather "tickler" and a vibrating "body wand".
Charles Barnes, the head of Dataslide and inventor of the vibrating drive, has produced a prototype drive containing a rectangular plate coated with magnetic-storage material similar to that used in disk drives.
By being too close together, the tubes rubbed against one another when vibrating under high pressure.
