HARMONICS


Meaning of HARMONICS in English

/hahr mon"iks/ , n. Music.

1. ( used with a sing. v. ) the science of musical sounds.

2. ( used with a pl. v. ) the partials or overtones of a fundamental tone. Cf. overtone (def. 1).

3. ( used with a pl. v. ) the flageoletlike tones of a string, as a violin string, made to vibrate so as to bring out an overtone.

[ 1700-10; see HARMONIC, -ICS ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .