(n.) The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
(n.) Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.
(n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.
(n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
(n.) The science which treats of their construction and progression.
(n.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
Example Sentences:
(1) These concepts of facial harmony and surgical alterations have been difficult to teach in a residency program, especially regarding preoperative evaluation and a clear idea of the desired surgical results.
(2) The results will give Harmony 25 seats in Latvia’s 100-seat parliament, six fewer than they had before the elections, when they were also the largest single party in parliament.
(3) Japan has a long history of placing great value on the idea of harmony and respecting the rights of everyone,” she said.
(4) He has previously said the Anzac spirit had “informed our Australian culture and our character ever since that time, and I don’t think that lining it up with NAIDOC week, reconciliation day, harmony day and so on gives it the central focus that it deserves in our curriculum”.
(5) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
(6) There are many differences between full dentures on Brånemark implants and fixed partial dentures built on the same type of implants: due to some more critical anatomical conditions, the choice of number, position and length of the implants is more delicate; the need of an harmonious crown-gingival tissue relationship; higher occlusal forces than in edentalous cases; difficulty in satisfying aesthetic requirements and ease of hygiene.
(7) Following the success of that release – and with the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's still months away – Brian Wilson imagined an orchestral and psychedelic suite showcasing the group's vocal harmonies.
(8) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
(9) In cultures at temperatures higher than necessary for optimum rates of growth the average lifetime of messenger RNA lengthened in harmony with the increased time required for cell division.
(10) Gay bishops have proved a headache for the archbishop of Canterbury, who has struggled to maintain harmony since taking office in 2002.
(11) A better conceptual balance needs to be struck between their harmonious and antagonistic functioning.
(12) A review of the literature shows little harmony between the results of this and various other studies.
(13) Induction by PB and MC of ER O-dealkylase, PR O-dealkylase and UDP-GT activities in ciliary NPE and PE cells was inhibited almost completely by 3.5 microM cyclohexamide and 40 nM actinomycin D. The heterogeneous distribution of these enzymes suggests that a harmonious interplay between NPE and PE cells is important for metabolic detoxification of blood plasma prior to aqueous humor formation.
(14) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
(15) The utilization review department, as well as the medical staff, must work in close harmony with administration to assist the facility in surviving trying economical times.
(16) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
(17) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
(18) Is this not a remarkable achievement, that we have such a diverse community and yet we live together so harmoniously?” Parramatta shooting: speculation is plentiful but the facts are few Read more Turnbull said: “And should we not ask ourselves: how did that happen?
(19) While those figures may be skewed by one film alone (Harmony Korine's hit teenage skin celebration Spring Breakers ) the overall pattern of sex bias is unmistakable.
(20) Working separately has, they say, been no bad thing for marital harmony.
Polyphony
Definition:
(n.) Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.
(n.) Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.
(n.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.
Example Sentences:
(1) The polyphony of themes that can be seen in the initial dream of psychoanalysis warns of monothematic interpretive proposals by therapists that are likely to be ill-understood or frankly rejected by patients in favor of openended interpretations.
(2) Judith Mackrell on Rien de Rien, Guardian, 2001 Do say "Yes, the music is often medieval polyphony, but then the choreography is itself a kind of polyphony."
(3) What it does is empower people to think differently.” In that respect, the show’s dense cultural polyphony is as clear a statement of purpose from a new voice as musical theater has heard in years.
(4) The latter refers to the "present day" sections of the film, in which Gainsbourg's character Joe recounts her past experiences to the man (played by Stellan Skarsgard) who finds her severely beaten in the street, who in turn analyses Joe's stories in terms of his intellectual passions, which include Bach polyphony, Edgar Allan Poe, and fly fishing.
(5) What Hamilton loved so much about Joyce was the mastery of language, the fluency of movement, the "polyphony of tongues, codes, ideolects" that released and inspired Hamilton himself to try out "some implausible associations in paint".