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Oscillation vs Resonance - What's the difference?

oscillation | resonance |

As nouns the difference between oscillation and resonance

is that oscillation is the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated while resonance is the condition of being resonant.

oscillation

English

Noun

(wikipedia oscillation) (en noun)
  • the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
  • a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
  • a single such cycle
  • (mathematics) (of a function) defined for each point x in the domain of the function by \inf\left\{\mathrm{diam}(f(U))\mid U\mathrm{\ is\ a\ neighborhood\ of\ }x\right\}, and describes the difference (possibly ?) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.
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    resonance

    Noun

  • The condition of being resonant.
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  • A resonant sound, echo
  • (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
  • (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.
  • (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)
  • An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
  • (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.