different between resonance vs reverberate

English

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Etymology

From Old French resonance (French résonance), from Latin resonantia (“echo”), from reson? (“I resound”).????

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z?n?ns/

Noun

resonance (countable and uncountable, plural resonances)

1. The quality of being resonant.
2. A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
3. (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
4. (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
5. (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.
6. (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
   • 2004, When experiments with the first ‘atom-smashers’ took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as ‘resonances’, were discovered. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)
7. An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
8. (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons; mesomerism.
9. (astronomy) A influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
10. (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.

Related terms

• resonate
• resonator
• resonant

Translations

Anagrams

• noncrease

Old French

Etymology 1

Latin resonantia (“echo”), from reson? (“I resound”).

Noun

resonance f (oblique plural resonances, nominative singular resonance, nominative plural resonances)

1. resonance

Etymology 2

resoner (“to reason”) +? -ance.

Noun

resonance f (oblique plural resonances, nominative singular resonance, nominative plural resonances)

1. reason (logic, thinking behind an idea or concept)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (resonance)

English

Alternative forms

• reverbate (rare)

Etymology

• From Latin reverber?tus, past participle of reverber? (“to rebound”), from re- and verber? (“to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v??(?).b??.e?t/

Verb

reverberate (third-person singular simple present reverberates, present participle reverberating, simple past and past participle reverberated)

1. (intransitive) To ring or sound with many echos.
2. (intransitive) To have a lasting effect.
3. (intransitive) To repeatedly return.
4. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
5. To send or force back; to repel from side to side.

6. To fuse by reverberated heat.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     reverberated into glass

7. (intransitive) To rebound or recoil.
8. (intransitive) To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
9. (obsolete) To shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.

Related terms

• reverberant
• reverberation
• reverberator
• reverberatory
• reverberative

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “reverberate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Adjective

reverberate (comparative more reverberate, superlative most reverberate)

1. reverberant
2. Driven back, as sound; reflected.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 9 p. 145[2]:

     With the reverberate sound the spacious ayre did fill

Latin

Participle

reverber?te

1. vocative masculine singular of reverber?tus