resonance
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See also résonance
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From Old French resonance (French résonance), from Latin resonantia (“‘echo’”), from resonō (“‘I resound’”).
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resonance (countable and uncountable; plural resonances)
- The condition of being resonant.
- A resonant sound, echo
- (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 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)
- 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.
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condition of being resonant
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