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Definition of Resonating chamber

1. Noun. A hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves.

Definition of Resonating chamber

1. Noun. a chamber whose dimensions allow sound to echo and build up ¹

2. Noun. a similar chamber that allows resonance of electromagnetic waves ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resonating Chamber

Literary usage of Resonating chamber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"The mouth cavity, in association with the laryngeal and nasal cavities, constitutes a resonating chamber. As such, it intensifies that particular tone or ..."

2. The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1916)
"The mouth cavity, in association with the laryngeal and nasal cavities, constitutes a resonating chamber. As such, it intensifies that particular tone or ..."

3. A College Text-book of Physics by Arthur Lalanne Kimball (1911)
"If a blast of air is sent through a skeleton pipe, which has a mouth-piece but no resonating chamber, a soft whistling noise is heard which rises in pitch ..."

4. Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin (1887)
"When this reed was set in action the resonating chamber tuned to that note sounded, but the others were silent. It is well known that resonators of this ..."

5. Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin (1881)
"When this reed was set in action the resonating chamber tuned to that note sounded, but the others were silent. It is well known that resonators of this ..."

6. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton, William Senhouse Kirkes (1907)
"The resonating chamber is then shortest as the larynx is raised as much as possible, and the mouth is bounded by the teeth, the lips being retracted; ..."

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