Word
Overtone
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
o-ver-tone
Definition
- 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.
- noun - A harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
- noun - (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality
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