Complete Definition of "resonance"

see|résonance
English
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Etymology
From OF. #Old French|resonance (French résonance), from L. resonantia �echo�, from resonare �resound�.

Pronunciation
(UK) IPA|/�ɹ�z�n�ns/

Noun
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  1. The condition of being resonant.
  2. Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
  3. 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.
  4. context|nuclear physics A short-lived subatomic particle that cannot be observed directly.

#*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)

  1. An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
  2. chemistry The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.

rfc|reword/combine definitions - should be three?

Translations
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Dutch: resonantie
German: Mesomerie
Hebrew: ר��ננס
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Italian: risonanza
Polish: rezonans
Swedish: resonans

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