resonance
Etymology
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Etymology
From Old French resonance (French résonance), from
- (British) IPA: /ˈɹɛzənəns/
resonance
- (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
- Synonyms: resound
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC ↗:
- The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.
- (countable) A resonant sound, echo
or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle. - 1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
- He passed on, and the lights and cries of the station dropped away, merged in a wider haze and a hollower resonance, as the train gathered itself up with a long shake and rolled out again into the darkness.
- (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
- (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
- emotional resonance
- (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
- An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
- (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
- Synonyms: mesomerism
- (astronomy) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
- (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
- (sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.
- French: résonance
- German: Resonanz
- Italian: risonanza
- Portuguese: ressonância
- Russian: резона́нс
- Spanish: resonancia
- Portuguese: ressonância
- German: Mesomerie
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