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Meanings of vibratory in English

Moving very rapidly to and from or up and down.

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        1
        The not being at rest is the being in a vibratory condition.
        The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
        2
        When the professor applied chloroform to the tin, the vibratory writings stopped.
        Autobiography of a Yogi
        3
        It was a storage battery of the vibratory current he was using.
        Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
        4
        Vibration sensation was evaluated by measuring vibratory threshold using an SMV-5 vibrometer.
        Pubmed
        5
        A strange vibratory groan radiated from the creature, a peculiar, deep sound.
        Smoke and Shadow
        6
        The vibratory quality in his voice warned her not to answer.
        The Pagans
        7
        The vibratory character of the mounting makes this a matter of first importance.
        Aeroplanes
        8
        The trailing flagellum is invariably much longer than the vibratory one.
        Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...
        9
        The vibratory force of thought-waves persist for some time after their original emanation.
        Genuine Mediumship; or, The Invisible Powers
        10
        This explains what we mean when we say life and matter are vibratory.
        Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
        11
        A thread-like process grows out of each cell, and effects continuous vibratory movements.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
        12
        The shock appeared to be nearly vertical, rapid, vibratory, and jerking.
        The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
        13
        But Costigan's infernal machine did not rely only upon vibratory destruction.
        Triplanetary
        14
        Everything is altered, directly as the vibratory rate is changed.
        Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
        15
        They represented, we were told, the vibratory waves of the revolutionary element in motion.
        Essays in Rebellion
        16
        To this vibratory motion we give the name of heat.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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