RESONANCES
Definition
RESONANCES is the plural of RESONANCE.
noun RESONANCE: an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
Examples
- “2004, When experiments with the first ‘atom-smashers’ took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as ‘resonances’, were discovered. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)”