Vocabulary : Resonancy to Resort

Resonancy : Resonance.
Resonant : Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency. ;; Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.
Resonantly : In a resonant manner.
Resonator : Anything that resounds or resonates; ;; An open box for containing a sounder and designed to concentrate and amplify the sound. ;; 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. ;; The antenna system and other high-frequency circuits of a receiving apparatus. ;; 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.
Resorb : To swallow up.
Resorbent : Swallowing up.
Resorcin : A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin.
Resorcylic : Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.
Resorption : The redissolving wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed. The dissolved material may again solidify, giving rise to a mass of small crystals, usually of a different kind. ;; The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.
Resort : Active power or movement; spring. ;; To go; to repair; to betake one's self. ;; To fall back; to revert. ;; To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. ;; The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. ;; A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. ;; That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
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