# resonance
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛzənəns/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

resonance (countable and uncountable, plural resonances)
* (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
    Synonym: resound
** 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.
* (countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
** 1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef‎, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:He passed on, and the lights and cries of the station dropped away, merged in a wider haze and a hollower resonance, as the train gathered itself up with a long shake and rolled out again into the darkness.
* (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
* (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
    emotional resonance
** 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club‎:But the film is largely redeemed by an unexpected emotional resonance befitting a Steven Spielberg production.
** 2017 October 27, Paul Daley, “The whole recognition process has a deep colonial resonance”, in The Guardian‎:The whole recognition process has a deep colonial resonance. [title]
** 2022 November 13, Vanessa Thorpe, “‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord”, in The Guardian‎:For audiences, all these shows mean a chance to revisit a story that still chimes loudly, and to see whether, as many suspect, it will have a more chilling resonance in the winter of 2022.
* (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.
** 2013, Charles P. Slichter, Principles of Magnetic Resonance, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 217:One of the most important developments beyond the original concept of magnetic resonance is so-called double resonance in which, as the name suggests, one excites one resonant transition of a system while simultaneously monitoring a different transition.
* (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
** 2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 35: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.
* 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.
    Synonym: mesomerism
* (astronomy) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
* (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
* (sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.
** 2019 [2016], James Wagner, transl., Resonance‎, John Wiley & Sons, translation of Resonanz by Hartmut Rosa, →ISBN:Resonance is a kind of relationship to the world, formed through affect and emotion, intrinsic interest, and perceived self-efficacy, in which subject and world are mutually affected and transformed.

#### Derived terms

* angioresonance
* antiresonance
* autoresonance
* bioresonance
* electron paramagnetic resonance
* electron spin resonance
* Fano-Feshbach resonance
* Feshbach resonance
* functional magnetic resonance imaging
* gyroresonance
* Helmholtz resonance
* hyperresonance
* magnetic resonance angiography
* magnetic resonance imaging
* magnetic resonance tomography
* magnetoresonance
* multiresonance
* nonresonance
* nuclear magnetic resonance
* nuclear quadrupole resonance
* paramagnetic resonance
* pararesonance
* postresonance
* resonance box
* resonance effect
* resonance energy
* resonance hybrid
* Schumann resonance
* tympanic resonance

#### Related terms

* resonate
* resonator
* resonant

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* resonance on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
* resonance (particle physics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* resonance (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* orbital resonance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* resonance (sociology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* noncrease

## Old French
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

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

### Etymology 2

resoner (“to reason”) +‎ -ance.

#### Noun

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