resonance

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Capability to produce vibrations

Nouns

1. vibration; reverberation, resounding, rebound; reflection, echo, reecho; ringing, tintinnabulation; ring, boom, rumble. See loudness, sound.

2. bell, gong, tamtam; triangle, crotales; chime, set of bells, handbell; cowbell; doorbell, school bell, etc.; resonator, echo chamber, soundbox, soundboard.

Verbs — resonate, vibrate, reverberate, resound, rebound, reflect, echo, reecho; ring, peal, tintinnabulate, jingle, jangle, tinkle; boom, rumble.

Adjectives — resonant, vibrant, reverberant, resounding, sonorous; ringing, pealing, jingling, jangling, tinkling; booming, rumbling.

Quotations — Every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side (Emerson).

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. reverberation, sonority, fullness, vibration; see depth 2 , noise 1 .