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Resonator

noun
1.
A hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves.  Synonyms: cavity resonator, resonating chamber.
2.
An electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude.  Synonym: resonant circuit.
3.
Any system that resonates.



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"Resonator" Quotes from Famous Books



... forward. He jerked open Betsy's adjustment-cover and fairly yelped his dismay. He reached in and swiftly completed corrective changes of amplification and scanning voltages. He balanced a capacity bridge. He soothed a saw-tooth resonator. He seemed to know by sheer intuition what was needed to ...
— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... vocal instrument has the three elements common to all musical instruments,—a motor, a vibrator, and a resonator; to which is added—what all ...
— Resonance in Singing and Speaking • Thomas Fillebrown
... thought upon the keyboard of his grand piano-forte. A miracle, indeed, these slender cushions of fat, ramified by a network of nerves, sinews, and bones as exquisite in their mechanism as the motion of the planets. If hearing is a miracle, so is touch; the ear is not a resonator, as has been so long maintained, but an apparatus which records variations of pressure. This makes it subservient to the laws of sensation; touch and hearing are akin. It aroused the pride of Davos after he had read the revolutionary theories of Pierre Bounier ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker


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