What's the difference between frequency and overtone?

Frequency


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
  • (n.) A crowd; a throng.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
  • (2) It was shown that delta F508 frequency of CF-patients was 59.2%, the frequencies of S5491, G551D and K533X were about 1%.
  • (3) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
  • (4) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (5) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (6) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (8) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
  • (9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (10) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
  • (11) There was no important difference in the frequency of HLA-A,B,C, and DR antigens between patients and controls.
  • (12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
  • (14) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
  • (15) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
  • (16) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
  • (17) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (18) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (19) Each test was examined by the frequency with which it was ordered, the frequency with which it was abnormal, and the frequency with which the abnormal result affected preoperative care.
  • (20) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.

Overtone


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Predictive physiologically based modeling of the inhalation of reactive gases has recently been demonstrated (Overton and Miller 1988).
  • (2) Love and Peace, a game for mobile phones designed by the Hong Kong-based games company nxTomo , is like a complex, three-dimensional reinterpretation of the classic arcade game Snake – but with strong political overtones.
  • (3) Syria's uprising began with largely peaceful protests and has evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones, pitting largely Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad's government, which is dominated by Alawites, a sect of Shia Islam.
  • (4) He has described it as "a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones", saying that, "a visceral sceptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel."
  • (5) Because of the emotional overtones of the word "stress," it is suggested that the term workload should be used when referring to the reason for increased cardiovascular activity of pilots.
  • (6) The results indicate a firm and relatively long closure of the glottis during overtone phonation.
  • (7) Meyer and Overton were the first to offer a quantitative relationship between a physicochemical property and potency of anesthetic agents.
  • (8) The near-infrared (NIR) spectral region (700-2500 nm) is a fertile source of chemical information in the form of overtone and combination bands of the fundamental infrared absorptions and low-energy electronic transitions.
  • (9) It released a statement on Thursday afternoon pushing for an “independent investigation” of the “fatal shooting of a legally armed citizen” and had noted “the racial overtones arising from Mr. Castile’s death.” “If you’re a minority member, you might be put in that situation more rapidly than the average gun owner.
  • (10) 400 cm-1 fundamentals are substantially stronger, relative to the overtones, than is predicted by first-order scattering theory, implying changes in the excited-state normal modes (Dushinsky effect) associated with force constant alterations.
  • (11) After the creation of the membran theory of synapse by Sherrington, the neuron theory by Ramón y Cajal, and the membran theory of narcosis by Meyer and Overton, the negation of the cell membran was being combined successively with the neovitalistic hypothesis of neuronal networks of Bethe and others.
  • (12) To a first approximation, the relative ability of these agents to increase 3H-acetylcholine binding parallels that of anesthesia in vivo as predicted by the Meyer-Overton lipid solubility rule.
  • (13) His zone of trespass moreover, has expanded over the years to include National Park Service and state lands, including the latter’s Overton Wildlife Manage Area.
  • (14) The link to urinary tract infection during infancy has renewed the neonatal circumcision debate, with all of its emotional overtones.
  • (15) This gentleman was disturbed in some way at the way things had transpired in his life,” Franklin County sheriff Bill Overton said at a news conference.
  • (16) Who would guess from the various kinds of gloom contained in those films, or the tragic overtones characterising all of them apart from Vampyr, that three of his greatest silent films are basically comedies about the war between the sexes?
  • (17) But in 2000 he was jailed for grievous bodily harm after stabbing a man in the face following a row that was reported at the time to have had racial overtones.
  • (18) HSBC narrowly avoided prosecution by the US Congress, so the chances are it is neurotically reacting to any account with political overtones or foreign transactions, be it owned by a suburban householder or a high-profile campaigning group.
  • (19) Evaluation of the spectral features in the two regions indicates that the detailed structure of the CH-stretching region depends strongly upon interaction, enhanced by Fermiresonance, between CH-stretching fundamentals and HCH-deformation overtones.
  • (20) It enabled to determine band parameters of underphase vuf and synphase vsf valent and overtone of deformation oscillations of OD-groups in liquid and sorbed water and to reveal at higher temperatures the bands of "free" OD-groups (v = 2668 cm-1).