syntony


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syntony

(ˈsɪntənɪ)
n
1. (Electronics) electronics a matching of frequencies
2. (Psychiatry) psychiatry a responsive, lively state that is liable to manic-depressive psychosis
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But her early suite of engravings and texts, exhibited in facsimile, He Disappeared into Complete Silence, 1947, from the same period as the Savinio prints here, confirms that her abstraction of the human could be in syntony with his art of everyday absurdity.
Weglinski [7-9] identified five emphatic tendencies: sensitivity to the experiences of others, emotional syntony (co-sounding), being moved by the positive and negative emotions of others, empathizing with the experiences of others, and a willingness to sacrifice for others.
These were his collaborators, and they were in syntony and therefore part of that work and that season.
In syntony with Heidegger's argumentation and in contrast with the "aspre mani asservite agli strumenti del lavoro" (D'Annunzio, 1993: 96), the creative gesture in Il fuoco is incarnated in the hands of the Murano glassmakers, light and nimble around the incandescent glass like "una danza silenziosa" (p.
These parameters are also important for the construction of a locution that transmits credibility and clarity during the emission of the news and, in that context, the articulation should be accurate, the low pitch, with speed of medium speech in syntony with the facial expression and gestures [3,16].
The increasing syntony and synchrony between these elements allow the artist to annul the ontological process whereby one entity is the cause and the other is the effect: rather they are ontogenetic, alternatively being cause and effect, natural and artificial, real and fictional.
Syntony shows a behavior adapted to the situation, with spontaneous, affective participation; in these conditions, the contact is easy to establish, according to the ambiance.
(43.) Hugh Aitken, Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ.
For him an ethical pedagogy depended on a syntony between the teacher and student as occurred by virtue of a free exchange of spiritual energy, which emerged in a process in which education was deemed to be identical to philosophy.
given purchase or syntony be rendered in adjustment