harmonic
/hɑːˈmɒnɪk//hɑɹˈmɑnɪk/
harmonic adjective: pertaining to harmony.
Adjective
harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)
- Pertaining to harmony.
- Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
- harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC
- 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.
- 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.
- Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
- 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.).1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages
Noun
harmonic (plural harmonics)
- A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
- 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.
- One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
- One's child.
- Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140
- The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]1988, Amateur Radio, volume 44, numbers 1-6, page 38
harmonic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
harmonic in Hindi
- हार्मोनिक, हारमोनिक
harmonic in Tamil
- அனுசுரம், உச்சத்தொனி, இசையும், அலைஅடுக்கு, இசையம், இசைவலை
harmonic in Marathi
- हार्मोनिक
harmonic in Urdu
- ہارمونک, ہرمونک
More languagesFewer languages
- harmonic in Bengali
- হারমোনিক
- harmonic in Telugu
- హార్మోనిక్
- harmonic in Malayalam
- ഹാർമോണിക്, ഹർമോണിക്
- harmonic in Kannada
- ಹಾರ್ಮೋನಿಕ್
- harmonic in Punjabi
- ਹਾਰਮੋਨਿਕ
- harmonic in Gujarati
- હાર્મોનિક
- harmonic in Odia
- ହାରମୋନିକ, ହାର୍ମୋନିକ
- harmonic in Nepali
- हार्मोनिक, हारमोनिक
- harmonic in Thai
- ฮาร์มอนิก, ทวีคูณความถี่
Examples of harmonic in a sentence
- I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.
- An anharmonic oscillator is a perturbed version of a harmonic oscillator.
- The way you spell a chord reflects its harmonic function.
Forms of harmonic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more harmonic |
| superlative | most harmonic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | harmonick |
| Noun | |
| plural | harmonics |
Origin of harmonic
From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic. Doublet of armónico.
Words formed from harmonic
- 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
Phrases with harmonic
- harmonic means
- harmonic engines
- harmonic numbers
- harmonic tremors
- harmonic analyzers
- harmonic balancers
- harmonic divisions
- harmonic functions
- harmonic oscillators
- harmonic proportions
- harmonic minor scales
- harmonic progressions
4 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with harmonic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ionic
- laconic
- masonic
- mnemonic
- monic
- monophonic
- monotonic
- pythonic
- Teutonic
- catatonic
- colonic
- histrionic
- homophonic
- infrasonic
- moronic
- planktonic
- platonic
- polytonic
- sardonic
- Slavonic
- sonic
- supersonic
- syntonic
- ambisonic
- anionic
- aplatonic
- apophonic
- arachidonic
- autochthonic
- avionic
- bacterioplanktonic
- Bonnick
- bosonic
- breviconic
- bubonic
- Byronic
- carbonic
- chthonic
- clonic
- conic
- cryonic
- Decameronic
- diatonic
- eugonic
- euphonic
- eutonic
- glyconic
- hadronic
Questions about harmonic
- What does harmonic mean?
- Harmonic means pertaining to harmony.
- What is harmonic in Hindi?
- Harmonic in Hindi is हार्मोनिक, हारमोनिक. See Harmonic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is harmonic?
- Harmonic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce harmonic?
- Harmonic is pronounced /hɑːˈmɒnɪk/ (UK).
Words near harmonic in the dictionary
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