noun
definition
A sonorant vowel or consonant.
synonyms
adjective
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Resounding, echoing.
example
From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
definition
(of a circuit) Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
Examples of resonant in a Sentence
His voice has a pleasing lilt merging tightly with a resonant guitar.
His commanding presence, mastery of diction, and resonant voice made him an effective platform speaker.
The music rises in tone majestically, but tapers down again, only to end on a powerfully resonant note.
Jones provides the deep, resonant voice, while Prowse's intimidating size gives towering bulk to the black caped figure.
There was a rich, deep-toned, resonant eloquence mingled with the speculative exposition; his style of expression was clear, elegant and forcible, abounding in happy turns and striking antitheses.
At a later date a syntonic system comprising, as above stated, an antenna directly coupled to a resonant closed circuit was put into operation by Lodge and Muirhead, and much the same methods have been followed in the system known as the Telefunken system employed in Germany.
Tired diction here, inappropriate register there; natural, unforced cadence here, resonant phrasing there.
See electron cyclotron resonant heating, ion cyclotron resonant heating, lower hybrid heating.
The velocity of resonant drift, produced by spatially uniform perturbations is obtained.
Early Centimetric Ground Radars - A Personal Reminiscence In all these cases, however, the resonant circuit was external to the vacuum envelope.
We have recently done pioneering experiments to demonstrate that resonant radiofrequency electromagnetic fields also affect radical reactions.
The first piece was a droning and resonant and, tho there was no fancy fretwork a la Dave MacGruer, I was gobsmacked.
The resonant charging properties depend on the chosen tank capacitor value and the leakage or ballast inductance of the supply.
At this frequency a parallel resonant circuit is formed between the primary inductance and the net capacitive reactance reflected back from the secondary.
They would have been filled with acoustic jars, to make the singing more resonant.
Next Exit is in turn humorous, touching surprising and emotionally resonant.
Beyond the issue of the war, the domestic political legacy of John Smith seems powerfully resonant again.
Yet that very sense of playing away, being on foreign turf, is deeply resonant of the incarnation.
These themes are particularly resonant within the current threats of a bird flu pandemic.
Symbolically, they can be highly resonant and emotive.
The C bore is very resonant with a good, clear sound.
Would these bodies become resonant around the rogue planet among them?
As typography - an architecture on the page, the poem remains deeply resonant for me.
Class-based politics begins to sound more resonant once people feel they have been stuck in the same rut for more than a generation.
Therefore we should look at what happens if we drive the resonator at a frequency that deviates significantly from its natural resonant frequency.
Therefore a fifteen inch woofer requires a huge box to keep its resonant frequency low enough.
The phenomena of beats may be easily observed with two organpipes put slightly out of tune by placing the hand near the open end of one of them, with two musical strings on a resonant chest, or with two tuning-forks of the same pitch mounted on their resonance boxes, or held over a resonant cavity (such as a glass jar), one of the forks being put out of tune by loading one prong with a small lump of beeswax.
In magical combinations, the lute and harp-playing by Robert Phillips and William Taylor produce the most ravishing, resonant sound.
This is the string which was resonant at the frequency of the note you sang.
The resonant frequency of the source is 0.75 MHz.
Wide static gaps, Resonant charging does not only apply to systems incorporating a rotary spark gap.
If the space charge region is placed into a resonant cavity which is appropriately tuned, very high peak powers may be achieved.
This dataset was analyzed for the presence of opacity effects (resonant scattering) taking place in the star 's transition region.
An SET is placed in a resonant tank circuit.
This is a perspective I find resonant with Dr. Henderson 's.
The resonant nonlinearity is modeled by a degenerate three-level system of saturable absorbers in order to allow for a two-dimensional medium polarization.
By sharing her observations of the apparently mundane, a resonant potency is granted to the humble "things" that surround us.
That said, Hopewell ' s characterisation of ironic ecclesiology contains many features that Anglicans will find resonant.
Are the resonant coherent photon-mediated interactions in semiconductor microstructures perspective for quantum computing?
These effects are examined in a 1.5 ton niobium resonant bar antenna.
None of the above restrictions prevents the writer from producing the kind of resonant and even poetic prose that can carry an enormous punch.
This is a perspective I find resonant with Dr. Henderson's.
Poetry writers are highly creative and emotionally-observant people who have a knack for putting a modicum of words together to form powerful, resonant pieces.
At the receiving end are a similar antenna and resonant circuit, and a telephone is connected across one part of the latter through an automatic interrupting device called by Poulsen a " ticker."