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whispering gallery
noun
- a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
whispering gallery
noun
- a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of whispering gallery1
Example Sentences
In the same way that the architecture of a whispering gallery bends and focuses sound waves, WGM microresonators confine and concentrate light in a tiny circular path.
So when you are in the Mapparium, you are also in a whispering gallery.
A teenager in Britain fell to his death Monday from the whispering gallery inside St Paul's Cathedral in London.
His research included laser spectroscopy and nonlinear optics as well as microresonators and whispering gallery modes.
Looking up, she figured out the source of the sound: a vaulted ceiling, similar to the “whispering gallery†in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S.
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