resonant meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

resonant

adj

/ˈɹɛzənənt/

Etymology Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Resounding, echoing.

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

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

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics 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: booming, remugient
Derived terms: antiresonant, gyroresonant, microwave resonant cavity thruster, multiresonant, nonresonant, pseudoresonant, resonantly, unresonant

resonant

noun

Etymology Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences A sonorant vowel or consonant.

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences 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.