# harmonic
## English
### Alternative forms

* harmonick (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony +‎ -ic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑː(ɹ)ˈmɒnɪk/
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* Rhymes: -ɒnɪk

### Adjective

harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)
* Pertaining to harmony.
* Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
** 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.
* (mathematics) Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
    The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.
* Recurring periodically.
* (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
* (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
** 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages:A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).

#### Derived terms

* abstract harmonic analysis
* anharmonic
* antiharmonic
* arithmetico-harmonic
* biharmonic
* disharmonic
* enharmonic
* euharmonic
* false harmonic
* harmonic addition theorem
* harmonically
* harmonic analysis
* harmonic analyzer
* harmonic balancer
* harmonic bounding
* harmonic brick
* harmonic conjugate
* harmonic conjugate function
* harmonic coordinates
* harmonic decomposition
* harmonic division
* harmonic divisor number
* harmonic engine
* harmonic equation
* harmonic expansion
* harmonic form
* harmonic function
* harmonic-geometric mean
* harmonic homology
* harmonicism
* harmonicity
* harmonic logarithm
* harmonic map
* harmonic mean
* harmonic mean index
* harmonic minor scale
* harmonic motion
* harmonic number
* harmonic oscillator
* harmonic parameter
* harmonic progression
* harmonic proportion
* harmonic quadrilateral
* harmonic range
* harmonic ratio
* harmonic segment
* harmonic series
* harmonic series of primes
* harmonic system of points
* harmonic tremor
* inharmonic
* monoharmonic
* multiharmonic
* natural harmonic
* nonharmonic
* non-harmonic tone
* pluriharmonic
* polyharmonic
* pseudoharmonic
* quasiharmonic
* second-harmonic generation
* semi-harmonic
* simple harmonic motion
* simple harmonic oscillator
* subharmonic
* superharmonic
* telharmonic
* triharmonic
* ultraharmonic
* unharmonic
* xenharmonic

#### Related terms

* harmonica
* philharmonic

#### Translations
### Noun

harmonic (plural harmonics)
* (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
* (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
* (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
* (CB radio slang) One's child.
** 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140:Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
** 1988, Amateur Radio, volume 44, numbers 1-6, page 38:The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* choirman, chromian, omniarch, rahmonic