different between resonance vs syntony

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

Noun

syntony (usually uncountable, plural syntonies)

1. (electronics) A condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency.
   • 1908, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 23,

     In practice, perfectly accurate syntony is not necessary, but some variation in a wave length may be permitted and good results at the receiver will still be attained.

2. A syntonic state.
   • 1969, Carlo Luigi Golino (editor), Italian Quarterly, Volume 13, page 27,

     Betti has dealt with the XXIX Canto of Paradiso in a commentary marked by an extreme richness of spiritual syntonies.

   • 1992, Michele Bezoari, Antonio Ferro, From a play between "parts" to transformations in the couple: psychoanalysis in a bipersonal field, Luciana Nissim Momigliano, Andreina Robutti, Shared Experience: The Psychoanalytic Dialogue, page 54,

     Rather, it seems to us that the analyst's priority should be to foster the progressive interaction of these areas into the couple's communicative work, so as to arrive, through successive transformations of what we have called functional aggregates, at a shared vision and an experience of emotional syntony relative to what occurs in the field.

   • 2007 January 25, London Review of Books, p12,

     Official demographers hasten to point out that high mortality rates were already a feature of the Brezhnev period, while low fertility rates are after all a sign of social advance, in syntony with Western Europe.