Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of musical sounds: a department of acoustics.
- noun The mathematical theory of harmonies (see
harmonic , n., 2), or the development of expressions for the Newtonian potentials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
- noun (Mus.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
harmonic . - noun physics (
music ) Thescience ofmusical sounds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of musical sound
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Examples
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i go for walk. power line about 250kw from transformer goes about 30 feet above head. will it affect health? can integral multiples of fundamental frequency be called overtones? what do the term harmonics mean?
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i go for walk. power line about 250kw from transformer goes about 30 feet above head. will it affect health? can integral multiples of fundamental frequency be called overtones? what do the term harmonics mean?
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i go for walk. power line about 250kw from transformer goes about 30 feet above head. will it affect health? can integral multiples of fundamental frequency be called overtones? what do the term harmonics mean?
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i go for walk. power line about 250kw from transformer goes about 30 feet above head. will it affect health? can integral multiples of fundamental frequency be called overtones? what do the term harmonics mean?
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They have to be Fourier-analyzed into their harmonics, which is a little tougher.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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I would be in fact, I originally didn't bring the number to a hand but had it end on a sort of on a dissonant chord with kind of violent harmonics, meaning very high, shrill sounds.
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Although they are playing the same note, what allows us to readily detect that two quite different instruments are being played is the sonic energy being produced at higher frequencies by each instrument called "harmonics", or more generally "overtones".
Peer Reviewing Ammann and Wahl #1 – The Correspondence « Climate Audit 2006
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The band still utilizes breakdowns along with ear pierching pinch harmonics which is still very Death metal I mean look at bands like
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Depapepe has a very well-rounded range of guitar techniques and sometimes, they apply very basic stuff such as harmonics, tremelo etc aptly to augment the song.
AvaxHome Areczq 2010
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Depapepe has a very well-rounded range of guitar techniques and sometimes, they apply very basic stuff such as harmonics, tremelo etc aptly to augment the song.
AvaxHome Areczq 2010
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