harmonic
See also: harmònic
English
Alternative forms
- harmonick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɑː(ɹ)ˈmɒnɪk/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Adjective
harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most 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.
- 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages:
- 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.).
Derived terms
- abstract harmonic analysis
- antiharmonic
- arithmetico-harmonic
- disharmonic
- enharmonic
- false harmonic
- harmonic addition theorem
- harmonic analysis
- harmonic analyzer
- harmonic balancer
- harmonic bounding
- harmonic brick
- harmonic conjugate
- harmonic conjugate function
- harmonic coordinates
- harmonic decomposition
- harmonic divisor number
- harmonic engine
- harmonic equation
- harmonic expansion
- harmonic form
- harmonic function
- harmonic-geometric mean
- harmonic homology
- harmonic logarithm
- harmonic map
- harmonic mean
- harmonic mean index
- harmonic minor scale
- harmonic motion
- harmonic number
- harmonic oscillator
- harmonic parameter
- harmonic progression
- harmonic proportion
- harmonic quadrilateral
- harmonic range
- harmonic ratio
- harmonic segment
- harmonic series
- harmonic series of primes
- harmonic system of points
- harmonic tremor
- natural harmonic
- non-harmonic tone
- second-harmonic generation
- semi-harmonic
- simple harmonic motion
- ultraharmonic
Related terms
Translations
pertaining to harmony
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pleasant to hear — see also harmonious
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mathematical attribute of mathematical entities
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phonology: exhibiting or applying vowel constraints in a word
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Noun
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.
- (mathematics) 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.
- 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140:
- Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
- 1988, Amateur Radio, volume 44, numbers 1-6, page 38:
- The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]
Translations
a component frequency of the signal of a wave — see also overtone
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