overtone
noun
- 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
- an implication; nuance: usually used in pl.: a reply full of overtones
See overtone in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ōˈvər-tōnˌ)
noun- An ulterior, usually implicit meaning or quality; an implication or a hint. Often used in the plural: an overtone of anger barely masked; praise with overtones of envy.
- See harmonic.
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