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Syntonic

Syntonic \Syn*ton"ic\, a. (Physics) Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton"ic*al, a. -- Syn*ton"ic*al*ly, adv.

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syntonic

a. 1 (context psychology English) In harmony or synergy with one's personality and milieu. 2 (context physics of oscillating systems English) Having the same frequency.

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Syntonic (album)

Syntonic is the second album by Canadian synthpop group Kon Kan, released in 1990 by Atlantic Records. Syntonic was the first Kon Kan album to solely feature Barry Harris; Kevin Wynne had departed the previous year.

Two singles were released from the album: "Liberty!" and "(Could've Said) I Told You So", the latter featuring a recreation of Jimmy Soul's 1963 number one hit, "If You Wanna Be Happy".

"Time" features a recreation of Canadian band Trooper's "We're Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time)".

Four songs were co-written with Bob Mitchell, who had also co-written Cheap Trick's 1988 number one hit, " The Flame", and songs on Kon Kan's previous album.

Four tracks were produced or co-produced by renowned disco producer John Luongo, who had also worked with Blancmange in the early 1980s.

Two tracks were co-produced by Paul Robb, a member of Minnesota band Information Society.

"Victim" was originally a 1978 Candi Staton single. The Kon Kan version was originally conceived as a duet featuring Tim Curry and Carole Pope.

Usage examples of "syntonic".

The Harmonic Heptagon provides a compact visualisation of all the consonant relationships between notes in the diatonic scale, and a trip once around the heptagon corresponds to one syntonic comma.

Harmonic Heptagon, we travel a distance in 3D space corresponding to the syntonic comma.

The period of repetition is the syntonic comma, as shown in the diagram, which is discussed in more detail later in this chapter.

And every time we travel a distance in 3D space corresponding to the syntonic comma, we must have travelled once around the Harmonic Heptagon.

The desired result is that the final home note is located at a position in 3D space displaced from the position of the initial home note by the syntonic comma.

Somehow, I supposed, the paradox of the syntonic comma gave rise to pleasure and emotionality.

I drifted around the room, returning eventually to the circular chair, happy to dwell in the syntonic dome of well-engineered voices.

The Harmonic Heptagon provides a compact visualisation of all the consonant relationships between notes in the diatonic scale, and a trip once around the heptagon corresponds to one syntonic comma.

Although Valis Regained draws heavily on the bitheism of the Qumran people, it basically presents another view, not syntonic to Horselover Fat: monotheism, with the notion that evil has no true existence of its own but borrows its existence, or is lent its existence, from the one God.