Text: A Resonator is an open vessel of glass, metal, cardboard, or other material, of such dimensions, that the mass of air contained in it resounds to a note of a certain pitch. Its use is, to assist the ear in discriminating a sound of this particular pitch, from a number of others at different pitches, all sounding simultaneously.

See Also: VIBRATIONS-RATES OF; TUBE RESONATOR; SPHERICAL RESONATOR

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