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What does echo mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word echo? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
  2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
  3. (figuratively) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
  4. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
  5. The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
  6. (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.
  7. (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.
Verb
  1. (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
  2. (by extension, transitive) To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.
  3. (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
  4. (computing) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
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