resonance

The quality of being resonant.

The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.

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

He passed on, and the lights and cries of the station dropped away, merged in a wider haze and a hollower resonance, as the train gathered itself up with a long shake and rolled out again into the darkness.

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

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

emotional resonance

But the film is largely redeemed by an unexpected emotional resonance befitting a Steven Spielberg production.

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.

One of the most important developments beyond the original concept of magnetic resonance is so-called double resonance in which, as the name suggests, one excites one resonant transition of a system while simultaneously monitoring a different transition.