Resonance1. (n.) Prolonged Quality and richness of tone or emotion; as powerful, resonant words.
2. (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments.
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