About The Word Overtone
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Overtone
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What's The Definition Of Overtone?
[n] a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
[n] (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair" Synonyms | Synonyms for Overtone: Related Terms | Find terms related to Overtone: AF | affective meaning | air | allegory | allusion | arcane meaning | assumption | atmosphere | audio frequency | aura | bearing | climate | coloration | coloring | connotation | consequence | denotation | drift | effect | essence | extension | feel | feeling | flageolet tone | force | frequency | fundamental | fundamental tone | gist | grammatical meaning | harmonic | harmonic tone | hint | idea | impact | implication | implied meaning | import | indication | inference | innuendo | insinuation | intension | intimation | intonation | ironic suggestion | lexical meaning | literal meaning | meaning | metaphorical sense | milieu | monotone | monotony | note | nuance | occult meaning | partial | partial tone | pertinence | pitch | pith | point | practical consequence | presumption | presupposition | purport | quality | range of meaning | real meaning | reference | referent | relation | relevance | scope | semantic cluster | semantic field | sense | significance | signification | significatum | signifie | span of meaning | spirit | structural meaning | subsense | subsidiary sense | substance | suggestion | sum | sum and substance | supposition | symbolic meaning | symbolism | tenor | tinge | tone | tonelessness | totality of associations | touch | transferred meaning | unadorned meaning | undercurrent | undermeaning | undertone | value See Also | harmonic | import | meaning | significance | signification Overtone In Webster's Dictionary \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See
{Over},{Tone}.] (Mus.)
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a 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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