résonance

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See also: resonance

French

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Etymology

From résonner +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁe.zɔ.nɑ̃s/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

résonance f (plural résonances)

  1. resonance
    La résonance est un phénomène selon lequel certains systèmes physiques sont sensibles à certaines fréquences.
    Resonance is a phenomenon which means that certain physical systems are sensitive to certain frequencies.
    • 1781, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Essai sur l’origine des langues:
      Rapportant toute l’harmonie à ce principe très simple de la résonance des cordes dans leurs aliquotes, M. Rameau fonde le mode mineur et la dissonance sur sa prétendue expérience qu’une corde sonore en mouvement fait vibrer d’autres cordes plus longues à sa douzième et à sa dix-septième majeure au grave.
      By reducing the whole of harmony to the very simple principle of the resonance of strings in their aliquots, M. Rameau bases the minor mode and the dissonance on his supposed findings that a vibrating sonorous string induces vibrations in longer strings at the lower twelfth and the lower major seventeenth.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Crimean Tatar: rezonans
  • → Polish: rezonans
  • → Turkish: rezonans

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