(n.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two possible versions of any instrumental timbre differed in the physical information used in their synthesis.
(2) Infants 7 to 8.5 months of age were tested for their discrimination of timbre or sound quality differences in the context of variable exemplars.
(3) We know, don't we, instantly when under the tutelage of a good teacher, we feel it in the timbre of their voice, we can feel the subtle, invisible flow of their good intention.
(4) Spectral properties appear to play a much larger role than dynamic properties in imagery for musical timbre.
(5) Fundamental frequency, pitch, timbre, and melody were analyzed with computerized electroglottography and sonography.
(6) These results suggest that timbre is perceived more in absolute than in relative terms.
(7) For fundamental frequencies in the human pitch range, many realizable timbres have vowel-like perceptual qualities.
(8) At the launch of a report by the all-party parliamentary group on women, she also called for an inquiry into sexism towards female MPs in the media, as anecdotally they tend to attract "superficial criticism about what we wear or the timbre of our voice, rather than what we say".
(9) Six listeners were asked to indicate whether perceived grouping of 49 such sequences was based on pitch proximity, timbre similarity, or ambiguous percepts not dominated by either cue.
(10) Voice clinicians, as well as singers, always correlate the assessment of the singing voice to the vocal and corporal gestures that model singing, and among these parameters, especially timbre.
(11) A possible explanation of the observed vowel timbres lies in the dependence of the short-time amplitude spectra on phase changes.
(12) 3, 45-52 (1979)] demonstrated that timbre differences could also bring about segregation.
(13) (1) When two complex tones contain different harmonics, do the differences in timbre between them impair the ability to discriminate the pitches of the tones?
(14) Recent studies have investigated the structure of perceptual relations among musical instrument timbres by multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques.
(15) Previous reports have warned that tonsillectomy or uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) may alter patients' speech by increasing the amount of nasal resonance as well as by changing voice timbre due to enlargement of the vocal tract.
(16) In recognition memory tasks, a target tone always appeared in a fixed position in the sequences, and listeners were instructed to attend to either its pitch or its timbre.
(17) Experiment 1, through the use of the Garner classification tasks, found that pitch and timbre of isolated tones interact.
(18) Harmonic complex tones comprising components in different spectral regions may differ considerably in timbre.
(19) The musical quality of timbre is based on both spectral and dynamic acoustic cues.
(20) Left hemisphere damaged aphasic patients were more accurate for target timbres over phonemes; the reverse pattern was found in the nonaphasic right hemisphere patients.
Variation
Definition:
(n.) The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
(n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
(n.) Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
(n.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.
(n.) One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(3) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(4) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(5) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(6) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(7) A small variation in T1 was found between older (greater than 40 years) and younger (less than 40 years) subjects, but no such effect was observed in the case of T2.
(8) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(9) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
(10) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
(11) Once the normal variations are mastered, appreciation of retinal, choroidal, optic nerve, and vitreal abnormalities is possible.
(12) Regression analysis on the 21 clinical or laboratory parameters studied showed that the only variable independently associated with CSF-FN was the total protein concentration in the CSF; this, however, explained only 14% of the observed variation in the CSF-FN concentration and did not show any correlation with CNS involvement.
(13) Pharmacokinetic parameters, such as these clearances, had large intersubject variations.
(14) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
(15) Further analysis of the role of sex steroid hormones is required in view of the sex variations reported.
(16) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(17) The variation in age-specific rates with age was similar for all cancers, as demonstrated by large positive correlation coefficients between age-incidence patterns averaged over all populations.
(18) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
(19) Accordingly, LPA proved an extremely stable characteristic which did not show any substantial variations in the course of five years.
(20) Variation in patient mix was a major determinant of the large variations in resource use.