Thesaurus: overtone

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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.
2. n. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality
3. n. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
4. 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.
5. One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as itdies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting orcolumn of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the naturalharmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; analiquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.Tyndall.
6. n:100 n. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality n. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency