Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RESONANCE

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Definitions of RESONANCE

1. An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
2. (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
3. (countable) A resonant sound, echo or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
4. (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
5. (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
6. (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.
7. (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
8. (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
9. (astronomy) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
10. (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
11. (sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.

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Examples of Using RESONANCE in a Sentence

• Electron spin resonance, a technique used in chemical spectroscopy to identify unpaired electrons and free radicals.
• In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract.
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.
• This includes nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging, industrial and agricultural isotopes, ion implantation in materials engineering, and radiocarbon dating in geology and archaeology.
• NMR, or nuclear magnetic resonance, is a phenomenon in which nuclei in a magnetic field absorb and re-emit electromagnetic radiation.
• In celestial mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of small integers.
• In astronomy, the plutinos are a dynamical group of trans-Neptunian objects that orbit in 2:3 mean-motion resonance with Neptune.
• The pitch of a brass instrument corresponds to the lowest playable resonance frequency of the open instrument.
• Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich.
• The most prominent techniques are X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron microscopy.
• The international second is based on the microwave frequency (9,192,631,770 Hz) associated with the atomic resonance of the hyperfine ground state levels of the caesium-133 atom in a magnetically neutral environment.
• Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when an object or system is subjected to an external force or vibration that matches its natural frequency.
• T1, longitudinal relaxation time, in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a measure of the time taken for spinning protons to realign with the external magnetic field.
• 3753 Cruithne is a Q-type, Aten asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, making it a co-orbital object.
• Toutatis is also a Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter, a 1:4 resonance with the planet Earth, and frequent close approaches to the terrestrial planets, including Earth.
• However, now it is known that the outer edge of the ring is instead maintained by a 7:6 orbital resonance with the larger but more distant moons Janus and Epimetheus.
• It can be applied to a variety of types of spectroscopy including optical spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy (FTIR, FT-NIRS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), mass spectrometry and electron spin resonance spectroscopy.
• Quaternions are used in pure mathematics, but also have practical uses in applied mathematics, particularly for calculations involving three-dimensional rotations, such as in three-dimensional computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, magnetic resonance imaging and crystallographic texture analysis.
• Wah-wah (or wa-wa) is an imitative word (or onomatopoeia) for the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness, sounding much like a human voice saying the syllable wah.
• Ganymede orbits Jupiter in roughly seven days and is in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively.
• The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958.
• In chemistry, the mesomeric effect (or resonance effect) is a property of substituents or functional groups in a chemical compound.
• Because of tidal resonance in the funnel-shaped bay, the tides that flow through the channel are very powerful.
• The barn is also the unit of area used in nuclear quadrupole resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance to quantify the interaction of a nucleus with an electric field gradient.
• Nuclear fusion reaction of two helium-4 nuclei produces beryllium-8, which is highly unstable, and decays back into smaller nuclei with a half-life of , unless within that time a third alpha particle fuses with the beryllium-8 nucleus to produce an excited resonance state of carbon-12, called the Hoyle state, which nearly always decays back into three alpha particles, but once in about 2421.

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