harmonic
Meanings
adj
- Pertaining to harmony.
- Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
- Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
- Recurring periodically.
- 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.
- Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
noun
- A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
- 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.
- One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
- One's child.
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Etymology
From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic.
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