What's the difference between harmonic and overtone?

Harmonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Harmonical
  • (n.) A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
  • (2) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
  • (3) In the case of the pressure time-derivative the significant harmonic content is shifted toward higher frequencies.
  • (4) The discrimination of the fundamental frequency (fo) of pairs of complex tones with no common harmonics is worse than the discrimination of fo for tones with all harmonics in common.
  • (5) The distribution half-life was 6.6 min and the elimination half-life was 39.0 min (harmonic means).
  • (6) When the coupling evolution was followed in the same subject, it did not appear for all locomotor frequencies but only for locomotor periods close to harmonics of respiratory ones (absolute coordination).
  • (7) However, tone phonemes are also comprised of higher harmonics that also may cue tone phonemes.
  • (8) The teeth developing in teratoma are not comparable to the normal process which is harmonized when the formation and the distribution of the various parts are concerned.
  • (9) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.
  • (10) The reproducibility and precision of results could be further improved by harmonizing the future distributions of reagents.
  • (11) The three-dimensional spatial distribution of filaments was studied with the aid of small-angle second-harmonic scattering, and the filaments were found to permeate the tendon cross-section in an apparently random fashion.
  • (12) Increased training is required for the professional persons involved, and a broad selection of therapeutic proposals should be offered to all of the families concerned, harmonizing with various instances particularly social and health authorities and the police and legal authorities.
  • (13) Backbone atoms tend to be more nearly harmonic than sidechain atoms.
  • (14) The elimination half-life of each metabolite was short, with harmonic mean values of 1.29, 0.98 and 0.92 hr for PCHP, trans-PPC and cis-PPC, respectively.
  • (15) Of the alternating-current components, only the fundamental is important at high frequencies, the higher harmonics being relatively more attenuated.
  • (16) The harmonic mean half-life was 7.4 hours after both treatments.
  • (17) We propose a second-order harmonic model to describe circadian periodicity in the 24-h cycle of microfilarial counts.
  • (18) However, regulatory variations have largely been removed within politically and geographically similar regions (e.g., the U.S.A., the European Community, the Nordic countries) and there now appears to be a consensus regarding the value of harmonizing international requirements.
  • (19) A number of other characteristic harmonic behaviors were also observed.
  • (20) Both tones were based on a five-component harmonic series.

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).