Usually means: Harmonious amplification of overlapping frequencies.
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  1. resonance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. resonance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resonance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. resonance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. resonance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Resonance, resonance: Wordnik
  7. resonance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. resonance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. resonance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. resonance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. resonance: Dictionary.com
  12. resonance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. resonance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Resonance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. resonance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. resonance: Rhymezone
  18. Resonance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. resonance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. resonance: Free Dictionary
  21. resonance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. resonance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. resonance: Wiktionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. resonance: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. RESONANCE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  2. Resonance: Management Dictionary
  3. Resonance (quantum field theory), resonance: Legal dictionary

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  1. Resonance (acoustics), Resonance (chemistry), Resonance (quantum field theory), resonance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Resonance (quantum field theory), resonance: Medical dictionary

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  2. resonance: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Resonance: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. resonance: Nine Planets Glossary

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  1. resonance: Urban Dictionary

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  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. resonance: Electronics
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. RESONANCE: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
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noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being resonant.
noun:  (countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
noun:  (medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
noun:  An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
noun:  (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
noun:  (astronomy) An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.
noun:  (electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
noun:  (sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.

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