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Resonance   /rˈɛzənəns/   Listen
Resonance

noun
1.
An excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
2.
A vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system.
3.
Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant.  Synonyms: plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy.
4.
A relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people.  Synonym: rapport.
5.
The quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities.



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"Resonance" Quotes from Famous Books



... subject of the book might easily seem to be wearing thin, for the fact is that Eugenie has not the stuff of character to give much interest to her story, supposing it were seen through her eyes. She is good and true and devoted, but she lacks the poetry, the inner resonance, that might make a living drama of her simple emotions. Balzac was always too prosaic for the creation of virtue; his innocent people—unless they may be grotesque as well as innocent, like Pons or Goriot—live in a world that is not worth the trouble of investigation. ...
— The Craft of Fiction • Percy Lubbock
... beneath his chin and he improvised a thin but adequate opening for Harry Baggs' song. The boy, for the first time in his existence, sang indifferently; his voice, merely big, lacked resonance; the song was robbed of all power ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... have even produced with the waves which remain phenomena of electric resonance quite similar to those which an Italian scholar, M. Garbasso, obtained with electric waves. This physicist showed that, if the electric waves are made to impinge on a flat wooden stand, on which are a series of resonators parallel to each other and uniformly ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... and louder with a nervous insistency on her ear, till the nerves quivered and vibrated, and she couldn't go to sleep. She lay and listened to all the noises outside. It was a still, clear, freezing night, when the least sound clinked with a metallic resonance. She heard the runners of sleighs squeaking and crunching over the frozen road, and the lively jingle of bells. They would come nearer, nearer, pass by the house, and go off in the distance. Those were the happy folks going to see the gold star and the Christmas greens in the church. The gold ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... those moments that come very seldom in our lives, when all the forces in us are sweetly strung, and every chord vibrating gives out full resonance. ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac


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