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resonance
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)
- The quality of being resonant.
- A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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)
- 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; mesomerism.
- (astronomy) A 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.
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)
- resonance
Etymology 2
resoner (“to reason”) +? -ance.
Noun
resonance f (oblique plural resonances, nominative singular resonance, nominative plural resonances)
- reason (logic, thinking behind an idea or concept)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (resonance)
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sonority
English
Etymology
sonor(ous) +? -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonoritas.
Pronunciation
- (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /s??n???ti/, /s??n????ti/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /s??n???ti/, /s??n????ti/
Noun
sonority (countable and uncountable, plural sonorities)
- The property of being sonorous.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America (volume 29, issue 2, page 127)
- Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.
- 1979, High Fidelity Musical America (volume 29, issue 2, page 127)
- (linguistics, phonetics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
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