harmonic
adjective
- harmonious in feeling or effect; agreeing
- Math. designating or of a harmonic progression
- Music
- of or pertaining to harmony rather than to melody or rhythm
- of or pertaining to a harmonic
noun
- an alternating-current voltage or current or a component of such voltage or current, whose frequency is some integral multiple of a fundamental frequency
- any of the pure tones making up a composite tone, including the fundamental and its upper partials or overtones; partial tone
See harmonic in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(här-mŏnˈĭk)
adjectivea. Of or relating to harmony.
b. Pleasing to the ear: harmonic orchestral effects.
c. Characterized by harmony: a harmonic liturgical chant.
- Of or relating to harmonics.
- Integrated in nature.
nouna. Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental tone.
b. A tone produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or stopped vibrating string at a given fraction of its length so that both segments vibrate. Also called overtone, partial, partial tone.
- harmonics (used with a sing. verb) The theory or study of the physical properties and characteristics of musical sound.
- Physics A wave whose frequency is a whole-number multiple of that of another.
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