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overtone
(encz) | overtone,podtón |
Overtone
(gcide) | Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See
Over, Tone.] (Mus.)
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher
frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced
by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of
air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural
harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth,
etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See
Harmonic, and Tone. --Tyndall.
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overtone
(wn) | overtone
n 1: (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality;
"overtones of despair"
2: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the
fundamental frequency [syn: overtone, partial, {partial
tone}] |
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overtone
(encz) | overtone,podtón |
overtones
(encz) | overtones,nádechy n: pl. Zdeněk Brožovertones,náznaky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
overtone
(wn) | overtone
n 1: (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality;
"overtones of despair"
2: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the
fundamental frequency [syn: overtone, partial, {partial
tone}] |
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