harmonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic. Doublet of armónico.
Inflected forms:
form: more harmonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most harmonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: harmonick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: harmonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harmonick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to harmony.
pos: adj
gloss: Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
pos: adj
examples: harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.
gloss: Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
pos: adj
examples: The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.
gloss: Recurring periodically.
pos: adj
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
pos: adj
examples: 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.).
gloss: A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
pos: noun
gloss: One's child.
pos: noun
examples: Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]
Related words: harmonica
philharmonic
Derived words: 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
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
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