resonant

UK/ˈɹɛzənənt/US/ˈɹɛzənənt/

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Resonant means deep and ringing, and lingering in the air. A resonant voice, a resonant phrase, deeply resonant.

The figurative sense is the commoner: a resonant phrase is one that keeps sounding in the mind afterwards. In physics a resonant frequency is the one at which something vibrates most readily, which is where the image comes from.

Definitions of resonant

1adjectiveresonantDeep and ringing, and lingering in the air.C1
“The singer's deep, resonant voice filled the old church.”

resonant is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin resonare means to sound again, from re- plus sonare, to sound.

Latin
resonāns
French
résonnant
English, today
resonant

French résonnant or Latin resonāns.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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resonant in the wild

Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits.
Tesla coil
Most of the resonant regions are also responsible for large fractions of the total amount of tidal energy dissipated in the oceans.
Tidal resonance
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior.
Resonator
In the regime of high Q values, this is equivalent to the frequency line width being small compared to the resonant frequency of the cavity.
Optical cavity
In astronomy, a resonant trans-Neptunian object is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in mean-motion orbital resonance with Neptune.
Resonant trans-Neptunian object

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