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Harmonic

//hɑː(ɹ)ˈmɒnɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to harmony.
  2. 2
    Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.

    "harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass."

  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    Recurring periodically.
  5. 5
    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.
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  1. 6
    Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.

    "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.)."

Adjective
  1. 1
    involving or characterized by harmony wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body wordnet
  3. 3
    of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm wordnet
  4. 4
    of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds wordnet
  5. 5
    of or relating to harmonics wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
  2. 2
    any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental wordnet
  3. 3
    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.
  4. 4
    a tone that is a component of a complex sound wordnet
  5. 5
    One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
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  1. 6
    One's child.

    "Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic.

Etymology 2

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic.

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