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con•so•nance



Pronunciation: (kon'su-nuns), [key]
—n.
1. accord or agreement.
2. correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
3. Music.a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose. Cf. dissonance (def. 2). See illus. under resolution.
4. Pros.
a. the correspondence of consonants, esp. those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse. Cf. alliteration (def. 1).
b. the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.
5. Physics.the property of two sounds the frequencies of which have a ratio equal to a small whole number. Also,con'so•nan•cy.

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