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overtone |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See {Over},{Tone}.] (Mus.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: overtone n 1: (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair" 2: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
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