harmonick

Adjective

harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)

1. Pertaining to harmony.
2. 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
3. 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.
4. Recurring periodically.
5. 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.
6. (Australianist linguistics) 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

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