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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of whispering gallery¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

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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.

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So when you are in the Mapparium, you are also in a whispering gallery.

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A teenager in Britain fell to his death Monday from the whispering gallery inside St Paul's Cathedral in London.

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His research included laser spectroscopy and nonlinear optics as well as microresonators and whispering gallery modes.

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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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