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Definition of Overtone
1. Noun. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality. "Overtones of despair"
2. Noun. A harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency.
Definition of Overtone
1. n. 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.
Definition of Overtone
1. Noun. (context: physics music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic ¹
2. Noun. An implicit meaning, as opposed to a hidden meaning or undertone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtone
1. a higher partial tone [n -S]
Medical Definition of Overtone
1. Any of the tones, other than the lowest or fundamental tone, of which a sound is composed. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtone
Literary usage of Overtone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"4, thus showing that the power of this overtone is four times greater than ...
6, I have indicated the vibrations of a mild second overtone (the twelfth). ..."
2. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"The second overtone of c and the first overtone of g*0, however, differ by 30,
and are therefore dissonant, and it is to the beats produced by these that ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Therefore an average of ПО A units must be allowed for the overtone ... The overtone
band is invariably broad, whereas the fundamental band is sharp. ..."
4. First Theory Book by Diller, Angela (1921)
"That is: From the fundamental to the first overtone is a perfect Octave. From the
first overtone to the second is a perfect Fifth. From the second overtone ..."
5. An Outline of Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1897)
"The sixth overtone, cgt does not make with its fundamental the musical interval
... We can now state the relation of overtone to fundamental in terms of the ..."
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