Resonant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Resonant \Res"o*nant\ (-nant), a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of
     resonare to resound: cf. F. r['e]sonnant. See {Resound}.]
     1. Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to
        resound; resounding; echoing back.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              Through every hour of the golden morning, the
              streets were resonant with female parties of young
              and old.                              --De Quincey.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  resonant
       adj 1: inducing resonance; "resonant frequency"
       2: characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear
          the rolling thunder" [syn: {resonating}, {resounding}, {reverberating},
           {reverberative}, {rolling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "resonant":
     beating, booming, consonant, deep, earsplitting, electrifying,
     enhanced, fat, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full,
     harmonic, heightened, intensified, libratory, loud, mellow, noisy,
     nutational, orotund, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulous,
     periodic, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing,
     resonating, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing,
     rolling, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentorian, strident,
     thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vacillating,
     vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering