resonate

verb
/ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/US/ˈɹez.əˌnæɪt/

Etymology

From Latin resonō.

  1. borrowed from resonō

Definitions

  1. To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

    • The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.
  2. To have an effect or impact

    To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.

    • His words resonated with the crowd.
    • Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.
    • “The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet,” wrote Margaret Atwood earlier this year, on why her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is resonating so forcefully in the age of Trump.
  3. To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude,…

    To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.

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Derived

resonator

Vish — recursive loop

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

5 hops · closes at resonate

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

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