overtone

Speech parts

1. overtone - Noun

2. overtone - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

partial harmonic partial tone association air meaning color sense intimation reference atmosphere tone feeling significance touch
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Antonyms

still air intimation sign wind feeling
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Hypernyms

meaning significance harmonic import signification

Phrases with the word

harmonic overtone

Examples

The 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

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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

Close letter words and terms

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