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biphonation

biphonation noun: the voicing of two pitches at the same time.

Noun

biphonation (countable and uncountable, plural biphonations)

  1. The voicing of two pitches at the same time.
    • NLP is signified as follows: DC = deterministic chaos, BP = biphonation, SH = subharmonics.2015 October 15, “The Acoustic Structure and Information Content of Female Koala Vocal Signals”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of biphonation

pluralbiphonations

Origin of biphonation

From bi- + phonation.

Questions about biphonation

What does biphonation mean?
Biphonation means the voicing of two pitches at the same time.
What part of speech is biphonation?
Biphonation is a noun.
What is the plural of biphonation?
The plural of biphonation is biphonations.

Words near biphonation in the dictionary

  1. biphilia
  2. biphobe
  3. biphobes
  4. biphobia
  5. biphobic
  6. biphonation
  7. biphonations
  8. biphoneme
  9. biphonemes
  10. biphonemic
  11. biphonic

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