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overtone

noun

  1. Acoustics, Music any of the attendant higher tones heard with a fundamental tone produced by the vibration of a given string or column of air, having a frequency of vibration that is an exact multiple of the frequency of the fundamental
  2. an implication; nuance: usually used in pl.: a reply full of overtones

See overtone in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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