echo

Meanings

Noun

• A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
• An utterance repeating what has just been said.
• A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
• Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
• The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
• Echo, the letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
• 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.
• A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
• Short form of echocardiography
• Short form of echocardiogram

Verb

• To reflect off a surface and return.
• To reflect back (a sound).
• To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
• To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
• To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Origin

• From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ, from ἠχή.