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harmonic

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Adjective

  1. Pertaining to harmony.
  2. Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
  3. Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
  4. Recurring periodically.
  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.
  6. Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.

Noun

  1. A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
  2. 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.
  3. One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
  4. One's child.

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