Harmonic

Quick meaning: Harmonic is an adjective meaning Pertaining to harmony.

Meaning

Pertaining to harmony.

More Meanings

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

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 […]

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

Word Forms

• harmonick
• harmonics

Synonyms for harmonic

Depending on context, synonyms include sympathetic, harmonious, consonant, harmonized, harmonical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harmonical, harmonized, harmonious, consonant, sympathetic, tonal.

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