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Resonator   Listen
noun
Resonator  n.  
1.
(Acoustics) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.
2.
Anything that resounds or resonates; specif.:
(a)
(Teleg.) An open box for containing a sounder and designed to concentrate and amplify the sound.
(b)
(Elec.) Any of various apparatus for exhibiting or utilizing the effects of resonance in connection with open circuits, as a device having an oscillating circuit which includes a helix of bare copper wire, a variable number of coils of which can be connected in circuit with a condenser and spark gap excited with an induction coil. It is used to create high-frequency electric brush discharges.
(c)
(Wireless Teleg.) The antenna system and other high-frequency circuits of a receiving apparatus.





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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


Words linked to "Resonator" :   soundbox, resonate, body, sounding board, system, cavity resonator, electrical circuit


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