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overtone

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  1. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality Source: wordnet
  3. 3. n. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency Source: wordnet
  4. 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. Source: webster
  5. 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. Source: adambom
  6. 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 Source: ecdict

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