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.

Compare overtone with other words:

overgone vs. overtone

overdone vs. overtone

null vs. overtone

fundamental vs. overtone

explicit vs. overtone

message vs. overtone

implicit vs. overtone

harmonic vs. overtone

multiple vs. overtone

integer vs. overtone

frequency vs. overtone

overtone vs. tone

dissonance vs. overtone

overtone vs. undertone

overtone vs. partial

overtone vs. pure