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      echo
      noun
      A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
      An utterance repeating what has just been said.
      (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
      (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
      (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
      (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
      (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
      (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
      (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
      (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
      An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
      (Greek mythology) An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.
      A number of places in the United States:
      (astronomy) 60 Echo, a main belt asteroid.
      An unincorporated community in Dale County, Alabama.
      An unincorporated community in Metcalfe County, Kentucky.
      A census-designated place in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
      A township in Antrim County, Michigan.
      A township and minor city therein, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
      A minor city in Umatilla County, Oregon.
      An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
      A populated place in Orange County, Texas.
      A census-designated place in Summit County, Utah, named after Echo Canyon.
      An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.
      (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography. [(medicine) The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart; especially, cardiac ultrasonography done with cardiology-specific devices and training, as contrasted with POCUS applied cardiovascularly by any clinician.]
      (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram. [(medicine) The visual image formed by an echocardiograph.]
      (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
      verb
      (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
      (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
      (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
      (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
      (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
      (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
      Roots
      echeinech- · Greek · to sound, resound
      Synonyms for echo
      reverberationnreverberatevresoundvreechovrepeatvsoundn
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