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natural frequency

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noun

  1. physics the frequency at which a system vibrates when set in free vibration Compare forcing frequency

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A planet and a swing both have a natural frequency.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2024

"We recorded the shamanic practitioner and found that they repeatedly vocalised tones at 231 Hz, which were then amplified by the cave at its natural frequency."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023

An ice sheet, like any solid, inherently vibrates at some natural frequency.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2022

But that window could shift as the natural frequency of fires unique to any given forest ecosystem is increasingly disrupted.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2022

That’s all there is to tuning–adjusting the capacity and inductance of a circuit until it has the same natural frequency as some other circuit with which we want it to work.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

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