sonance


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so·nance

 (sō′nəns)
n.
Sound.
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sonance

noun
The sensation caused by vibrating wave motion that is perceived by the organs of hearing:
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There are also TV mounts and touch controls, such as Sonance's iPad wall fixtures, which you will see installed in homes as often as you see them installed in restaurants.
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A third normal illusion which makes the vibrato in its present gross form tolerable is the phenomenon of sonance, which lies in the fact that successive periodicities, when of sufficient rate, tend to fuse into a unified tone somewhat in the same manner that the simultaneous overtones in a violin clang fuse and are heard together as one tone.
Myself and Rob were in Cheap Freaks together and we all played in Brian's project Sonance Hotel.
A say-it--without--saying--it sonance ed-- died about them.
The three minute Harrison Birtwistle fanfare Sonance Severence 2000 blew our minds from almost silent bass pianissimos, to tutti cacophony.
ere will be a performance of Sonance Severance by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, a composer whose music has always sounded grippingly youthful but who this year is celebrating his 80th birthday.
What happens when we direct our attention to the sheer physicality, the pure sonance of words and phonemes?