Definition of "vibratory" []

• Causing or exhibiting vibrations. (adjective)

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• "_vibratory_, and most persons have received the impression that the vibratory motion was an actual change of position of the molecular in space instead of a _change of form_."
• "It is called a vibratory motion because it possesses a periodic vibratory movement, but as to its exact character, that has not yet been discovered."
• "As we have already seen (Art. 61), heat is due to a particular kind of motion of the universal Aether, generally known as vibratory motion, which motion is communicated to the"