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harmonic

Visual representation of harmonics in the periodic motion of a vibrating guitar string. First (or fundamental) harmonic (top), second harmonic (center), and sixth harmonic (bottom).

har·mon·ic

(här-mŏn′ĭk)

adj.

a. Of or relating to harmony.

b. Pleasing to the ear: harmonic orchestral effects.

c. Characterized by harmony: a harmonic liturgical chant.

2. Of or relating to harmonics.

3. Integrated in nature.

a. Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental tone.

b. A tone produced on a stringed instrument by lightly touching an open or stopped vibrating string at a given fraction of its length so that both segments vibrate. Also called overtone, partial, partial tone.

2. harmonics(used with a sing. verb) The theory or study of the physical properties and characteristics of musical sound.

3. Physics Any of a series of periodic waves whose frequencies are integral multiples of a fundamental frequency.

[Latin harmonicus, from Greek harmonikos, from harmoniā, harmony; see harmony.]

har·mon′i·cal·ly adv.

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harmonics

(hɑːˈmɒnɪks)

1. (Music, other) (functioning as singular) the science of musical sounds and their acoustic properties

2. (Music, other) (functioning as plural) the overtones of a fundamental note, as produced by lightly touching the string of a stringed instrument at one of its node points while playing. See harmonic ⁶

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har•mon•ics

(hɑrˈmɒn ɪks)

n.

1. (used with a sing. v.) the science of musical sounds.

2. (used with a pl. v.) the partials or overtones of a fundamental tone.

3. (used with a pl. v.) the flutelike tones of the strings of a stringed instrument made to vibrate to produce overtones.

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Noun 1. harmonics - the study of musical sound

acoustics - the study of the physical properties of sound

Translations

armoniche

harmonics

[hɑːˈmɒnɪks] N → armonía f

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harmonics

[hɑː^rˈmɒnɪks] npl → harmoniques mpl or fpl

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harmonics

n sing → Harmonik f

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harmonics

[hɑːˈmɒnɪks]

1. npl (Mus) → armonia

2. nsg (Phys) → armonica

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The coroner is to sit in the first-floor room at the Sol's Arms, where the Harmonic Meetings take place twice a week and where the chair is filled by a gentleman of professional celebrity, faced by Little Swills, the comic vocalist, who hopes

He is conducted by the beadle and the landlord to the Harmonic Meeting Room, where he puts his hat on the piano and takes a Windsor-chair at the head of a long table formed of several short tables put together and ornamented with glutinous rings in endless involutions, made by pots and glasses.

It is considered not unlikely that he will get up an imitation of the coroner and make it the principal feature of the Harmonic Meeting in the evenlng.

The beadle is very careful that two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons (for whose accommodation he has provided a special little table near the coroner in the Harmonic Meeting Room) should see all that is to be seen.

The Harmonic Meeting hour arriving, the gentleman of professional celebrity takes the chair, is faced

The jingling piano at last is silent, and the Harmonic friends rally round their pillows.

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He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.

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It isn't a noise that you hear, But Music, harmonic and clear.

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The club received him with transport, and held an harmonic meeting that evening in his honour; while Mrs.

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These then, though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain, nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise; Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep: All these with ceasless praise his works behold Both day and night: how often from the steep Of echoing Hill or Thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others note Singing thir great Creator: oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk With Heav'nly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joind, thir songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.

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the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

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Let's consider different values of harmonics. One has 3 harmonics on a transformer, a machine, or a network in which he wants to determine their sequences in order to see which one has a Direct Sequence, an Inverse Sequence, or a Homopolar Sequence.

Simple method for determining harmonic sequences in a machine, transformer or network