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English Dictionary: resonant	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for resonant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
resonant adj characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" Synonym(s): resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" Synonym(s): evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Resonant \Res"onant\ (-nant), a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. r[82]sonnant. See {Resound}.] Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant* with female parties of young and old. --De Quincey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Resonant \Res"o*nant\, a. (Elec.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.