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  • noun Plural form of resonance.

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Examples

  • As so often with Powell, the film bears certain resonances with Hitchcock, in this case, Lifeboat, which also portrays a Nazi submarine commander as a cunning, resourceful ubermensch until brought down by good old international pluck.

    GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 2/27. 2007

  • The same goes for all of Ludlum’s (or, for that matter, “Van Lustbader” ’s) female characters — virtually none of whom, independent of resonances from the films, are anything other than motile MacGuffins at best, and usually just targets.

    Home is where the hero isn’t at SF Novelists 2010

  • They are assuming that state changes in the climate system are reliant on or attached to resonances, which is logical, but do they reasonably consider the magnitude of forcing components on the resonant qualities in relation to positive forcing of the system?

    RealClimate 2009

  • They are assuming that state changes in the climate system are reliant on or attached to resonances, which is logical, but do they reasonably consider the magnitude of forcing components on the resonant qualities in relation to positive forcing of the system?

    RealClimate 2009

  • They are assuming that state changes in the climate system are reliant on or attached to resonances, which is logical, but do they reasonably consider the magnitude of forcing components on the resonant qualities in relation to positive forcing of the system?

    RealClimate 2009

  • They are assuming that state changes in the climate system are reliant on or attached to resonances, which is logical, but do they reasonably consider the magnitude of forcing components on the resonant qualities in relation to positive forcing of the system?

    RealClimate 2009

  • They are assuming that state changes in the climate system are reliant on or attached to resonances, which is logical, but do they reasonably consider the magnitude of forcing components on the resonant qualities in relation to positive forcing of the system?

    RealClimate 2009

  • They are assuming that state changes in the climate system are reliant on or attached to resonances, which is logical, but do they reasonably consider the magnitude of forcing components on the resonant qualities in relation to positive forcing of the system?

    RealClimate 2009

  • Both Anthe and Methone orbit Saturn in locations, called resonances, where the gravity of the nearby larger moon, Mimas disturbs their orbits.

    unknown title 2008

  • Both Anthe and Methone orbit Saturn in locations, called resonances, where the gravity of the nearby larger moon Mimas disturbs their orbits.

    News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2008

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