ˌanti-ˈresonancen.
The opposite of resonance in various senses (see quots.).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun]
flatness1626
lightness1817
irresonance1880
anti-resonance1923
1923 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 2 12 Series resonance and shunt anti-resonance coincide if both are included in an internal transmitting band.
1936 Gloss. Acoustical Terms (B.S.I.) 7 Anti-resonance, a condition resulting from a combination of the mass and stiffness reactances of a system in which a response to a sinusoidal stimulus of constant magnitude reaches a minimum at a particular frequency.
1948 M. Joos Acoustic Phonetics 96 Anti-resonance, suppression of a narrow band of frequencies.
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