1. overtone - Noun
2. overtone - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe physical carrier is overshadowed by a relation. The relation creates an overtone. The physical carrier is absorbed by this overtone. The overtone spontaneously transforms the means of creation into a spiritual reality. The mystery of creation is then revealed. Hans Hofmann
overtones of despair Source: Internet
A 4 in particular, which is at the seventh partial (sixth overtone) is nearly always 31 cents, or about one third of a semitone, flat of the minor seventh. Source: Internet
A badly designed oscillator circuit may suddenly begin oscillating on an overtone. Source: Internet
According to Alexander Ellis (in pages 24–25 of his definitive English translation of Helmholtz), the similarity of German "ober" to English "over" caused a Prof. Tyndall to mistranslate Helmholtz' term, thus creating "overtone". Source: Internet
A fundamental crystal oscillator circuit is simpler and more efficient and has more pullability than a third overtone circuit. Source: Internet