resonance

noun11

1. •
   The quality of being resonant.
2. •
   A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
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. •
   (figurative) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.

   • But the film is largely redeemed by an unexpected emotional resonance befitting a Steven Spielberg production. — 2012
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. •
   An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
7. •
   The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.
8. •
   A quality of human relationship with the world.

   • Resonance is a kind of relationship to the world, formed through affect and emotion, intrinsic interest, and perceived self-efficacy, in which subject and world are mutually affected and transformed. — 2019
9. •
   A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.

   • 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. — 2004
10. •
    The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
11. •
    An influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.