Resonance vs. Dissonance: What's the Difference?

Intensification and prolongation of sound, especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration.

A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.

Intensification of vocal tones during articulation, as by the air cavities of the mouth and nasal passages.

Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict

(Medicine) The sound produced by diagnostic percussion of the normal chest.

(Music) A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.

Richness or significance, especially in evoking an association or strong emotion

A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.

(Physics) The increase in amplitude of oscillation of an electric or mechanical system exposed to a periodic force whose frequency is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency of the system.

(music) Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.

(Physics) A subatomic particle having too short a lifetime to be observed directly and whose existence is inferred from a peak in the energy distribution of its decay products.

A state of disagreement or conflict.

(Chemistry) The property of a compound having simultaneously the characteristics of two or more structural forms that differ only in the distribution of electrons. Such compounds are highly stable and cannot be properly represented by a single structural formula.

(countable) An instance of disharmony or disjunction; a clash.

(uncountable) The quality of being resonant.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

(countable) A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.

Want of agreement; incongruity.

(medicine) The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

(figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.

The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;

(physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.

Disagreeable sounds

(nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.

An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.

(chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.

(astronomy) A influence of the gravitational forces of one orbiting object on the orbit of another, causing periodic perturbations.

(electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.

(sociology) A quality of human relationship with the world.

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

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.

A phenomenon in which a vibration or other cyclic process (such as tide cycles) of large amplitude is produced by smaller impulses, when the frequency of the external impulses is close to that of the natural cycling frequency of the process in that system.

An electric phenomenon corresponding to that of acoustic resonance, due to the existance of certain relations of the capacity, inductance, resistance, and frequency of an alternating circuit; the tuning of a radio transmitter or receiver to send or detect waves of specific frequencies depends on this phenomenon.

An excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation

A vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system

Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

Relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people

The quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities