harmonic
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός, from ἁρμονία.
Pronunciation- IPA: /hɑː(ɹ)ˈmɒnɪk/
harmonic
- Pertaining to harmony.
- Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- French: harmonique
- German: harmonisch
- Italian: armonico
- Portuguese: harmônico, harmónico
- Russian: гармони́ческий
- Spanish: armónico
- French: harmonieux, harmonique, mélodieux, mélodique
- German: harmonisch
- Italian: armonico
- Portuguese: harmonioso
- Russian: гармони́чный
- Spanish: armónico
- French: harmonique
- Italian: armonico
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. - (math) 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.
- Russian: гармо́ника
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