How to Use resonator in a Sentence

resonator

noun
  • Acoustic resonators might even test the bounds of the quantum realm.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The core of Dr Adib’s invention is called a broadband resonator.
    The Economist, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Once in the resonator, the light cannot return to the fiber without somehow changing direction.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • The drummer plays resonator guitar when called upon; a backup singer is also a flautist.
    Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 17 June 2018
  • By routing the intake through the fender, the sound of the engine switching to high-revving cams is amplified because the fender acts as a resonator.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Audiences are wowed when he multi-tasks melodies and bass lines on his resonator guitar.
    David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2017
  • To keep stray bits of energy from messing with the resonator, the whole device is kept very close to absolute zero.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Some are clawhammer banjos, which is an open-back banjo, and some are bluegrass banjos, which have a resonator back.
    Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The score is just a range of guitars — acoustic, a resonator guitar and an electric guitar with effects — and two cellos.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2021
  • That light is then channeled into a narrow beam by a resonator, and then directed at a target.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2016
  • The very short pulses are generated by guiding light in a little ring, called a microring resonator, in a glass chip.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Building blocks to chips For its qubits, IBM uses superconducting wires linked to a resonator, all built on top of a silicon wafer.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
  • This is important because the critical piece of the hardware is a little glass ball, called a whispering gallery mode resonator.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • These are coupled directly to the devices that create the very short pulses—the little chip of glass that contains microring resonators—and from there, the light goes out to the ranging system.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Qubits, by contrast, store information in the form of the quantum state of an object—in the case of Google's processor, a loop of superconducting wire linked to a resonator.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • At one unnerving moment, Chase blows on an Aztec death whistle—a ceramic resonator that can evoke a roaring wind or a screaming crowd.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Caught in a trap Transmon qubits work by circulating a current through a loop of superconducting wire, linked to a resonator that allows the state of the current to be controlled and read out.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Similarly, the writeup also compares moonquake vibrations to those of a tuning fork, which is a kind of acoustic resonator.
    Jessica Coulon, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2022
  • One of its unique characteristics is support for a micro ring resonator (MRR)—an essential piece of optical components that provides the light source for the chip—on 300mm wafers.
    Bob O'Donnell, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • One lyre-like instrument from Central Africa features a resonator fashioned from an actual human skull.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
  • That's tricky, because the resonance frequency of most resonators changes with temperature.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • The current Ridgeline still has a useful dual-action tailgate and a trunk with optional resonators in the sides of the bed that effectively turn the entire cargo box into an outdoor speaker for the audio system.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2020
  • At high engine speeds, exhaust air flows almost exclusively through the main pipes, bypassing the resonator and reducing, says Honda, any booming noises.
    Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
  • The resonator is sensitive to microwave frequencies, allowing each individual qubit to be set or read out using a microwave pulse.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The bug was a simple cavity resonator and circuit attached to an antenna that would only pick up signals when an electromagnetic signal of the correct frequency was aimed at it.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Current wireless charging systems work on the principle of magnetic induction, in which a resonator and a receiver are coupled through magnetic fields.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2017
  • For example, at the heart of nearly all electronic systems is a timing device that consists of two parts: a mechanical resonator that generates the frequency and analog circuits that handle the system’s timing functions.
    Markus Lutz, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In the Twenties, Sherman told me, researchers looking for a better resonator for radio frequencies hit upon quartz crystals, which vibrate at a generally reliable frequency.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Today, Rosenberg’s team is aggressively pursuing the particle, sweeping through an entire frequency bandwidth every nine months before replacing their resonator with a new one that searches for the next axion mass in their lineup.
    Emily Toomey, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The resonators, meanwhile, act like antennas, picking up and transmitting ambient radio frequencies.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2018

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