resonance

See also résonance

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛzənəns/

Noun

resonance (countable and uncountable; plural resonances)

1. The condition of being resonant.
   • 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, The Onion AV Club:

     But the film is largely redeemed by an unexpected emotional resonance befitting a Steven Spielberg production.

2. A resonant sound, echo
3. (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
4. (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.
5. (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle that cannot be observed directly.
   • 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)
6. An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
7. (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.

Related terms

• resonate
• resonator
• resonant

Translations

condition of being resonant

• Dutch: resonantie (nl)
• Polish: rezonans (pl) m

• Romanian: rezonanță (ro) f
• Russian: резонанс (ru) (rezonáns) m

resonant sound

• Dutch: weergalm (nl), weerklank (nl)

• Polish: pogłos (pl) m

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Translations to be checked

• French: résonance
• German: Mesomerie
• Hebrew: רזוננס

• Italian: risonanza
• Swedish: resonans

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Old French

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. resonance

Etymology 2

resoner (“to reason”) +‎ -.

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)