EGAVE

harmonic

About 4.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Pertaining to harmony.
  2. adjective Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
  3. adjective 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. adjective Recurring periodically.
  5. adjective 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.
  6. adjective Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
  7. noun A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

harmonical harmonized harmonious consonant sympathetic in harmony tonal overtone smooth melodious

Often followed by

motion oscillator and analysis of distortion generation series mean

Word family

harmonically harmonics

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