[f. STRIDENT: see -ENCE.] The fact of being strident.
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1890. S. P. Thompson, in Nature (1891), 15 Jan., 252/1. For compound tones corresponding to the whole series, odd and even, there is, in every case, minimum intensity, brilliancy, and stridence with δ = 3/4, and maximum with δ = 1/4.
