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resonant

adj
/ˈɹɛzənənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

  1. borrowed from resonāns
  2. borrowed from résonnant

Definitions

  1. Resounding, echoing.

    • From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
    • strike a resonant note
    • “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.

  2. Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the…

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

  3. A sonorant vowel or consonant.

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Derived

antiresonant, gyroresonant, microwave resonant cavity thruster, multiresonant, nonresonant, pseudoresonant, resonantly, unresonant

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at resonant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at resonant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at resonant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA