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the sound metal makes when it wants the whole room to know.
means To make or be a loud, resonant ringing sound, like metal striking metal.
from An echoic word — its very shape mimics the noise it names, the lingering 'ng' ringing out like the sound itself. English has long minted such imitative metal-words (clang, clank, clink, clatter), and 'clang' is generally tied to Latin 'clangere,' to resound or clash, which also gave us the trumpet-blast sense in 'clangor.' In short: a word built from its own echo.
- origin
- Echoic word that imitates the noise itself
- physics
- Born from struck metal vibrating at audible frequencies
- language
- German 'klang' means tone or sound quality
- opera
- Wagner obsessed over crashing metallic timbres
- compiler
- Apple's C language compiler shares the name
for instance
clang compiler — llvm-based c/c++ compiler first released by apple in 2007
clang static analyzer — source code analysis tool that finds bugs in c, c++, and objective-c programs