resonance
nounIntensification and prolongation of sound, especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration.
nounIntensification of vocal tones during articulation, as by the air cavities of the mouth and nasal passages.
nounThe sound produced by diagnostic percussion of the normal chest.
nounRichness or significance, especially in evoking an association or strong emotion.
nounThe increase in amplitude of oscillation of an electric or mechanical system exposed to a periodic force whose frequency is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency of the system.
nounA subatomic particle having too short a lifetime to be observed directly and whose existence is inferred from a peak in the energy distribution of its decay products.
nounThe property of a compound having simultaneously the characteristics of two or more structural forms that differ only in the distribution of electrons. Such compounds are highly stable and cannot be properly represented by a single structural formula.
nounIn electricity, the condition of an alternating electric circuit in which the capacity reactance equals or approximately equals the inductive reactance.
nounIn psychology: A term applied, in the James-Lange theory of emotion, to the complex of bodily changes reflexly aroused by the object which excites emotion. “The changes are so indefinitely numerous and subtle that the entire organism may be called a sounding-board.”