resonance

Meaning

1. (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
2. (countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
3. (countable, uncountable) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
5. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
7. (countable, uncountable) An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
8. (countable, uncountable) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
9. (countable, uncountable) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
10. (countable, uncountable) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
11. (countable, uncountable) A quality of human relationship with the world.

Synonyms

reverberation

sonority

noise

ringing

vibrancy

sympathetic vibration

sound

🔉

echo

rapport

reverberance

tone

plangency

sonorousness

sympathy

spatial arrangement

sympathetic

syntony

timbre

tonality

tunefulness

unvoiced sound

reflection of sound

resonance absorption

re echo

percussion resonance

backwash

harmonic oscillatio

buzz

consonance

influence

intonation

mesomerism

reaction

repercussion

repercussions

replication

reply

resound

resounding

roar

Translations

résonance

risonanza

Resonanz

ressonància

resonantie

resonancia

naklank

απήχηση

weerklank

galm

ressonância

αντήχηση

nagalm

weergalm

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛzənəns/

Etymology

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