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Resonance vs Sonority - What's the difference?

resonance | sonority |

As nouns the difference between resonance and sonority

is that resonance is the condition of being resonant while sonority is the property of being sonorous.

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.
  • sonority

    English

    Noun

    (sonorities)
  • The property of being sonorous.