resonance

Intensification and prolongation of sound, especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration.

Intensification of vocal tones during articulation, as by the air cavities of the mouth and nasal passages.

The sound produced by diagnostic percussion of the normal chest.

Richness or significance, especially in evoking an association or strong emotion.

The increase in amplitude of oscillation of an electric or mechanical system exposed to a periodic force whose frequency is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency of the system.

A subatomic particle having too short a lifetime to be observed directly and whose existence is inferred from a peak in the energy distribution of its decay products.

The property of a compound having simultaneously the characteristics of two or more structural forms that differ only in the distribution of electrons. Such compounds are highly stable and cannot be properly represented by a single structural formula.

In electricity, the condition of an alternating electric circuit in which the capacity reactance equals or approximately equals the inductive reactance.

In psychology: A term applied, in the James-Lange theory of emotion, to the complex of bodily changes reflexly aroused by the object which excites emotion. “The changes are so indefinitely numerous and subtle that the entire organism may be called a sounding-board.”