Meaning

Pertaining to harmony..

Definitions by Sense

1. Pertaining to harmony.
2. Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
3. (mathematics) Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
4. Recurring periodically.
5. (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.
6. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
7. (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
8. (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.

Example Sentences

harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.

The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.

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.).

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 […]

Word Forms

• more harmonic
• most harmonic
• harmonick
• harmonics

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Use harmonic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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