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.

Noun

Lack of harmony.

* 1909 , , "What I Saw of Shiloh" in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I :

Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?

* 1912 , , The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance , ch. 22:

Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony .