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See also: harmònic
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- harmonick (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)
- pertaining to harmony
- pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books, Dublin; London: Reprinted for A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756:
- harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.
- (mathematics) used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance
- The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.
- recurring periodically
- (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
- (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
- 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages
- A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).
- 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages
Derived terms[edit]
- disharmonic
- enharmonic
- harmonic addition theorem
- harmonic analysis
- harmonic brick
- harmonic conjugate
- harmonic conjugate function
- harmonic coordinates
- harmonic decomposition
- harmonic divisor number
- harmonic equation
- harmonic expansion
- harmonic form
- harmonic function
- harmonic-geometric mean
- harmonic homology
- harmonic logarithm
- harmonic map
- harmonic mean
- harmonic mean index
- harmonic number
- harmonic parameter
- harmonic progression
- harmonic quadrilateral
- harmonic range
- harmonic ratio
- harmonic segment
- harmonic series
- harmonic series of primes
- harmonic system of points
- ultraharmonic
Translations[edit]
pertaining to harmony
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pleasant to hear
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mathematical attribute of mathematical entities
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(phonology) exhibiting or applying vowel constraints in a word
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Noun[edit]
harmonic (plural harmonics)
- (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
- (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
- (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
- (CB radio slang) One's child.
- 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal (volume 23, issues 7-12, page 140)
- Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
- 1988, Amateur Radio (volume 44, issues 1-6, page 38)
- The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]
- 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal (volume 23, issues 7-12, page 140)
Translations[edit]
a component frequency of the signal of a wave — See also translations at overtone
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