Meaning of aftersound | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sound that persists or remains audible after its source has ceased to produce it; the perception of such a sound.
2. The second, slower phase of decay in the sound made by a piano string when it is struck.
3. A weaker sound that immediately follows a more salient one, such as the second, less prominent vowel sound in a falling diphthong.
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Examples

“[…] the strings of an instrument, […] being strucken with the hand, do verberate the ayre in its first sound⟳, and are reverberated by the ayre to an after-sound.”

“He fired the Winchester twice again, into the distance, then lowered it, the ringing aftersound of the gunfire in his ears.”

“Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing.”

“And the aftersound of the music played in the light-filled drawing room would grow⟳ closer to pure silence each year, until time ended.”

“1881, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, “The simple sounds of all the living Slavonic languages compared with those of the principal Neo-Latin and Germano-Scandinavian Tongues,” Transactions of the Philological Society, 1880-1881, p. 377, In English I cannot hear⟳ the sound⟳ of Italian o chiuso, but only that of (o 5) followed by an aftersound, as in home, or without this aftersound, as in more.”

“They [gu and qu] were not groups formed of a guttural stop⟳ and the semi-vowel v, but guttural stops with a labial aftersound; the latter receiving a very much weaker articulation than the semi-vowel v.”

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