resonant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛzənənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

resonant (comparative more resonant, superlative most resonant)

1. Resounding, echoing.

   From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.

   strike a resonant note

   • 2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “Cheops gave us this resonant configuration that allowed us to predict all the other periods. Without that detection from Cheops, it would have been impossible,” Luque said.

2. (electricity, of a circuit) Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

Synonyms

• (resounding): booming, remugient; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

Derived terms

• antiresonant
• gyroresonant
• microwave resonant cavity thruster
• multiresonant
• nonresonant
• pseudoresonant
• resonantly
• unresonant

Translations

resounding, echoing

• Bulgarian: ехтящ (bg) (ehtjašt), резониращ (bg) (rezonirašt)
• Catalan: ressonant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洪亮 (zh) (hóngliàng), 響亮 / 响亮 (zh) (xiǎngliàng)

• Greek: αντηχητικός (el) (antichitikós)
• Irish: athshondach, fuaimneach
• Spanish: resonante

Noun

resonant (plural resonants)

1. (phonetics) A sonorant vowel or consonant.

   Synonym: sonorant

   1. (Indo-European studies) Any of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.

Usage notes

• Unlike in broader linguistics, Indo-European resonants exclude the vowels (symbol: ⟨V⟩) *e, *o, [*a], and, depending on context, *i and *u, despite these latter being the syllabic forms of *y and *w respectively. There are two classes of resonants, the liquids (⟨L⟩ = *l, *r) and the nasals (⟨N⟩ = *n, *m).

Further reading

• sonorant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

resonant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of resonō