resonances

noun

1. 1

   The quality of being resonant.

2. 2

   A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.

3. 3

   The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.

4. 4

   Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.

   “2004, 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. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)”

7. 7

   An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.

8. 8

   The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons; mesomerism.

9. 9

   A influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.

10. 10

    The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.