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Definitions: Resonance |
ResonanceNoun1. An excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation. 2. A vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system. 3. Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant. 4. Relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people. 5. The quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resonance" was first used: sometime in the mid-15th century. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. The phenomenon of amplification of a free wave or oscillation of a system by a forced wave or oscillation of exactly equal period. The forced wave may arise from an impressed force upon the system or from a boundary condition. The growth of the resonant amplitude is characteristically linear in time.2. Of a system in forced oscillation, the condition which exists when any change, however small, in the frequency of excitation causes a decrease in the response of the system. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A phenomenon appearing in an oscillating system, in which the period of a forced oscillation is very close to that of a free oscillation. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A phenomenon presented by an oscillating system in which the period of the free oscillations is the same as that of the forced oscillations. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | The capacity of elastic bodies to vibrate when certain frequencies of sound waves impinge on them from outside. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A term denoting a variety of phenomena characterized by the abnormally large response of a system having a natural vibration period to a stimulus of the same, or nearly the same, frequency b. A buildup of amplitude in a physical system when the frequency of an applied oscillatory force is close to the natural frequency of the syste. (references) |
Physics | The phenomenon of a system in forced oscillation such that any change, however small, in the frequency of excitation results in a decrease in response of the system. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A relationship in which the orbital period of one body is related to that of another by a simple integer fraction, such as 1/2, 2/3, 3/5. (references) | |
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In physics, resonance is an increase in the oscillatory energy absorbed by a system when the frequency of the oscillations matches the system's natural frequency of vibration (its resonant frequency). Examples are the acoustic resonances of musical instruments, the tidal resonance of the Bay of Fundy, orbital resonance as exemplified by some of the Jovian moonss, and resonance in electronic circuits.
An improperly constructed bridge, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie), can be destroyed by its resonance; that is why soldiers are trained not to march in lockstep across a bridge, but rather in breakstep.
In an electrical circuit, resonance occurs at a particular frequency when the inductive reactance and the capacitive reactance are of equal magnitude, causing electrical energy to oscillate between the magnetic field of the inductor and the electric field of the capacitor.
Resonance occurs because the collapsing magnetic field of the inductor generates an electric current in its windings that charges the capacitor and the discharging capacitor provides an electric current that builds the magnetic field in the inductor, and the process is repeated. An analogy is a mechanical pendulum.
At resonance, the series impedance of the two elements is at a minimum and the parallel impedance is a maximum. Resonance is used for tuning and filtering, because resonance occurs at a particular frequency for given values of inductance and capacitance. Resonance can be detrimental to the operation of communications circuits by causing unwanted sustained and transient oscillations that may cause noise, signal distortion, and damage to circuit elements.
Since the inductive reactance and the capacitive reactance are of equal magnitude, ωL = 1/ωC , where ω = 2πf , in which f is the resonant frequency in hertz, L is the inductance in henries, and C is the capacitance in farads when standard SI units are used.
See also: Orbital resonance, Tidal locking, Tidal resonance, RLC series circuit, wave, Q factor, Impedance, acoustics, Harmony, Antenna theory, Music theory
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Resonance."
Synonyms: ResonanceSynonyms: plangency (n), rapport (n), reverberance (n), ringing (n), sonority (n), sonorousness (n), vibrancy (n). (additional references) |
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Recoil | Noun: recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back; Verb: elasticity; reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation; (resonance); rebuff, repulse; return. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Resonance Romance (2002) | |
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 | A woman's head is being secured by a female technician, preparing the woman for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast, demonstrating marked enhancement (bright area) which was confirmed to be cancer.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Color-enhanced slide shows magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | (5) color slides of a single image of a human brain using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Shows a bright blue color where brain cancer metastasizes in the occipital lobe. See artwork: GA-17 Horizons of Cancer Research.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Slide shows researcher using electron spin resonance spectroscopy to examine the role of free radicals in promoting anticancer drug activity as well as in the development of drug resistance.Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |  | At Howard University in Washington, D.C., chemist George Gassner records information as animal scientist Al Mitchell (left) and university scientist Hua Fu Song examine a cross-sectional magnetic resonance image from the abdominal area of a pig. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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Health | Spectroscopy -- see magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging. (references) | |
Physicians now use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose syringomyelia. (references) | ||
These include echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomography. (references) | ||
Business | The most promising subsectors for U.S. firms include dialysis equipment, magnetic resonance imaging and other diagnostic equipment, and medical lasers. (references) | |
Sales of gamma cameras, nuclear and non-Nuclear diagnostic equipment, such as magnetic resonance imaging are generally limited to large medical centers specializing in radiology. (references) | ||
Sales of linear accelerators, gamma cameras, cobalt therapy systems, nuclear and non-nuclear diagnostic equipment, such as magnetic resonance imaging are generally limited to large medical centers specializing in radiology. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | In its 2001-02 Budget, government has made provision for the payment of two CT scans, one Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, 32 dialysis machines and one digital angiography machine. (references) |
Turkey | New capital-intensive medical technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and megavolt radiation therapy will continue to be purchased by Turkish hospitals. (references) | |
Finland | Products such as patient monitoring systems, mini invasive surgery (MIS), day surgery equipment, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment, video endoscopes, digital image processing, and picture archiving have the best sales potential in Finland. (references) | |
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| "Resonance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.56% of the time. "Resonance" is used about 348 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.56% | 343 | 15,445 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.44% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 348 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "resonance": 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging ♦ acoustic resonance ♦ adaptive resonance theory ♦ electron paramagnetic resonance ♦ electron spin resonance ♦ Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy ♦ functional magnetic resonance imaging ♦ magnetic resonance ♦ magnetic resonance angiography ♦ Magnetic Resonance Imaging ♦ Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ♦ nuclear magnetic resonance ♦ nuclear magnetic resonance imaging ♦ nuclear resonance ♦ perfusion magnetic resonance imaging ♦ proton magnetic resonance ♦ pulmonary resonance ♦ resolved resonance region ♦ resonance box ♦ solid state nuclear magnetic resonance ♦ Surface Plasmon Resonance ♦ vocal resonance. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "resonance": resonance-enhancement, resonance-free. | |
Ending with "resonance": anti-resonance, brain-resonance, double-resonance, non-resonance, off-resonance. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "resonance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rezonancë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صدى (echo, rebound, repercussion, reverberate, reverberation), رنين (chink, clang, jingle, peal, ping, resonant, ring, ringing, sound, tinkle, tone, twang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | резонанс (consonance), отглас (ablaut, answer, echo, gradation, response). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 共鸣 (resonate, resonating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rezonance, ozvìna (echo, reverberation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | resonans. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | resonantie (echo), naklank (echo), galm (ambience, echo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | resono (echo), postsono (echo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیچش صدا, طنین (Noise, Ring, Sonance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | resonanssi, kaje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | résonance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Resonanz (resonant, response, syntony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απήχηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת"ו"" (acoustics), """ו" (echoing, reverberation), רזו ס, צליליות (tonality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zengés (clang, peal, ring, ringing), együtthangzás (consonance, consonancy, unison), rezonancia (sonority), együttzengés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gaung (hole, ravine, reverberation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risonanza (echo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, lesson, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, retouch, rhetoric, sticker, tow truck, wrestling), 共鳴り (sympathy), 共鳴 (sympathy), 共振 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レゾナンス , きょうし" (accord, fanaticism, severe earthquake, swinging hard, unison), きょうめい (reputation for beauty, sympathy), ともなり (developing friendship, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공명. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aavuilley (cannon, counterblow, reaction, recoil, return, tintinnabulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esonanceray ressonância (harmonic resonance, harmonics, sounding). (various references) rezonanţã (echo), vibraţie (jar, oscillation, quaver, swing, tremble, vibration). (various references) резонанс. (various references) rezonancija, rezonanca (vibrancy), zvučnost (loudness, sonority). (various references) resonancia (harmonic resonance, harmonics, repercussion, ring). (various references) resonans. (various references) rezonans (rebound, syntony), yankılama, tınlama (clang, clangor, clangour, clank, sounding, tinkling), sesi yansıtma, sesi şiddetlendirme özelliği. (various references) резонанс. (various references) tiếng âm vang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | resonantia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resonance": resonances. (additional references) | |
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"Resonance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reasonance, reconance, renosance, resanance, resenance, resinance, resonace, resonances, resonanse, resornance. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resonance" (pronounced re"zununs) |
| 5 | -u n u n s | abstinence, chrominance, countenance, dissonance, dominance, eminence, immanence, imminence, incontinence, luminance, maintenance, ordinance, permanence, predominance, preeminence, prominence, provenance, sustenance. |
| 4 | -n u n s | governance, Ordnance, penance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, distance, disturbance, divergence, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminescence, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, performance, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, protuberance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: onscreen. | |
-2 letters: acerose, ancones, arenose, canners, careens, caserne, coarsen, conners, corneae, corneas, encores, ensnare, narcose, necrose, recanes, rennase, scanner, sonance. | |
-3 letters: acorns, ancone, arseno, caners, canner, canoes, canons, careen, casern, censer, censor, coarse, conner, cornea, cranes, crease, crones, encase, encore, nacres, nances, narcos, nonces, oceans, ocreae, racons, rances, ranees, reason, recane, recons, screen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: cannoneers, resonances. | |
+2 letters: consternate, contravenes, contredanse, conversance, covenanters, governances, provenances. | |
+3 letters: archenterons, concentrates, consternated, consternates, containerise, contraveners, contredanses, conversances, conveyancers, counterpanes, crenelations, inobservance, intolerances, necromancers, necromancies, noncoverages, preannounces, remonstrance. | |
+4 letters: antielectrons, antirecession, cogenerations, concelebrants, conservancies, containerised, containerises, containerizes, containerless, conversancies, conversazione, countenancers, counteragents, crenellations, encroachments, inconsiderate, inobservances, nomenclatures, nondecreasing, nonobservance, nonresistance, oneiromancies, predominances, recognizances, reconveyances, remonstrances, secondariness, unconsecrated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 6F 6E 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... --- -. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s o n a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 006F 006E 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527185818067806971 |
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