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resonant Definition

reso·nant (-nənt)

adjective

  1. resounding or reechoing a resonant sound
  2. producing resonance; increasing the intensity of sounds by sympathetic vibration resonant walls
  3. full of, characterized by, or intensified by, resonance a resonant voice, a resonant passage in a novel
  4. of or in resonance

Etymology: L resonans, prp. of resonare, to resound: see re- & sound,

resonant Related Forms
res′o·nantly adverb
resonant Synonyms

resonant

modif.

resounding, reverberating, sonorous, booming; see loud 1.

resonant Usage Examples

Preposition: at

  • frequency: This is the string which was resonant at the frequency of the note you sang.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: They would have been filled with acoustic jars, to make the singing more resonant.

Modifies a noun

  • frequency: The resonant frequency of the source is 0.75 MHz.
  • charging: Wide static gaps, Resonant charging does not only apply to systems incorporating a rotary spark gap.
  • drift: The velocity of resonant drift, produced by spatially uniform perturbations is obtained.
  • cavity: If the space charge region is placed into a resonant cavity which is appropriately tuned, very high peak powers may be achieved.
  • scattering: This dataset was analyzed for the presence of opacity effects ( resonant scattering ) taking place in the star's transition region.
  • circuit: An SET is placed in a resonant tank circuit.

Modifying Another Word

  • emotionally: Next Exit is in turn humorous, touching surprising and emotionally resonant.
  • powerfully: Beyond the issue of the war, the domestic political legacy of John Smith seems powerfully resonant again.
  • deeply: Yet that very sense of playing away, being on foreign turf, is deeply resonant of the incarnation.
  • particularly: These themes are particularly resonant within the current threats of a bird flu pandemic.
  • highly: Symbolically, they can be highly resonant and emotive.
  • very: The C bore is very resonant with a good, clear sound.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Would these bodies become resonant around the rogue planet among them?
  • remain: As typography - an architecture on the page, the poem remains deeply resonant for me.
  • seem: Beyond the issue of the war, the domestic political legacy of John Smith seems powerfully resonant again.
  • sound: Class-based politics begins to sound more resonant once people feel they have been stuck in the same rut for more than a generation.
  • find: This is a perspective I find resonant with Dr. Henderson's.

Preposition: with

  • oscillation: When the pulse injection is resonant with the active medium relaxation oscillations are seen to occur ( Fig.