reverberated

Reverberated is the past tense form of reverberate, a verb meaning to be filled with a series of echoes due to multiple reflections of sound waves or to cause such echoes. The term originates from Latin reverberare, "to beat back," from re- "back" and verberare "to strike."

In acoustics, reverberation describes the persistence of sound after the source has stopped, created by sound waves reflecting from surfaces in an environment. A sound that has reverberated has undergone this process; in descriptions one might say "the hall reverberated" to indicate sustained, diffuse sound.

Reverberation time, commonly denoted RT60, is the time required for the sound to decay by 60 decibels; this metric informs the design of spaces like concert halls, classrooms, and recording studios. Excessive reverberation can reduce speech intelligibility and musical clarity, while too little yields a "dead" acoustic environment.

In practice, reverberated can also describe a sound that has been processed with artificial reverb in recording or live sound, where electronic effects simulate natural reverberation. The adjective reverberant describes spaces or sounds with a lively, echoing quality, while reverberation is the noun for the phenomenon.

Figuratively, the term can describe effects that spread widely, as in "the decision reverberated through the region."