harmonic

UK /hɑː(ɹ)ˈmɒnɪk/ US /hɑː(ɹ)ˈmɒnɪk/
adj 5noun 4

Definitions

adj

1

Pertaining to harmony.

2

Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.

harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.

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

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.

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.

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

The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]

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