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overtone
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Word definitions for overtone in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See Over , Tone .] (Mus.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, in literal sense, from over + tone (n.); a loan-translation of German Oberton , first used by German physicist Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894) as a contraction of Overpartialton "upper partial tone." Figurative sense of "subtle ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE political ▪ Furthermore, these viewpoints in this problem situation are very emotive as they have moral and political overtones . ▪ The course was moved to Reinhardt College in 1994, after complaints about its political ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound. Using the model of Fourier analysis , the fundamental and the overtones together are called partials . Harmonics , or more precisely, harmonic partials, are partials whose frequencies ...
Usage examples of overtone.
It sounded louder and closer than it ever did for matins or vespers, its overtones nearly drowning out the other bells.
When I tried to reverse that, she reminded me of a holiday palindrome that has sexual overtones in both our languages: Giving is taking is giving.
Brazilian-African spiritist cult, with some Caribbean and Mexican overtones.
The emotional overtones of the Church of Humanity Unchained were always like some deep, satisfying well of renewal and faith, one she could physically experience thanks to her empathic link to Nimitz.
They are probably there to monitor unusual demand for brain chemicals and carbos in a combination that approximates paranoid hysteria with pseudo-psychotic overtones, a condition that I admit I submitted to momentarily just now.
Not even the Christological overtones of The Book of the New Sun approach the overt meditations on ethics, the spirit, truth, redemption, and God that pervade this later series.
Szgranian, and she laughed again with overtones that Ran Colville had heard often in the flirting voices of human females.
There is a harmony between us, Emul, I feel it in the way our signals merge with overtones of many a high degree!
Paris, who might know where a powerman would go, once a month, to hire blondes for a liaison with -masochistic overtones.
Ira smells like fresh cut lemon grass with overtones of cherry cough drops.
Since she was not naturally a defying kind of person it was not quite the look that she thought it was and it ought to have been, having overtones of haemorrhoid sufferer, but the effort was there.
Even in Berkeley, political rallies during 1966 had overtones of music, madness and absurdity.
The request itself was courteous enough, she supposed, but in that affected accent it took on the overtones of oh-so-civilized contempt for the benighted neobarb among them.
Most of the basic tones were subsonic, sensed in the bones rather than the eardrums, but there were overtones and harmonics aplenty, a cacophony that somehow managed to seem both too bass and too shrill for comfort.
She juggled shields, cataloged the overtones, and searched for telltales, all at the same time.