resonant

comparative more resonant · superlative most resonant

1. Resounding, echoing.

   strike a resonant note

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   From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.

   “Cheops gave us this resonant configuration that allowed us to predict all the other periods. Without that detection from Cheops, it would have been impossible,” Luque said.

   2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN

   Synonyms: booming

2. businessAdjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

plural resonants

1. human sciencesA sonorant vowel or consonant.

   Synonyms: sonorant

   1. Indo European studieshuman sciencesAny of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.

      Synonyms: sonorant