Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schumann resonance

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: schu-man-n res-o-nance
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low-frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.

Etymology

Named after the physicist Winfried Otto Schumann, who predicted them mathematically in 1952.

Inflected Forms

Schumann resonances (plural)

Questions

What does schumann resonance mean?: Any of a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low-frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.
Where does schumann resonance come from?: Named after the physicist Winfried Otto Schumann, who predicted them mathematically in 1952.

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