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multiphonic

multiphonic adjective: having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time.

Adjective

multiphonic (not comparable)

  1. Having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time
    • He prefaced his next song with a row of hard, multiphonic squawks, sounding like a truck horn.2009 January 22, Nate Chinen, “A Single Jazz Band, by Way of Two Trios”, in New York Times

Origin of multiphonic

From multi- + -phonic. Contrasting with monophonic (“of an instrument, producing one note at a time”).

Questions about multiphonic

What does multiphonic mean?
Multiphonic means having the character of multiphonics: sounding two or more pitches at the same time.
What part of speech is multiphonic?
Multiphonic is an adjective.

Words near multiphonic in the dictionary

  1. multiphenotypic
  2. multiphobic
  3. multiphone
  4. multiphonemic
  5. multiphones
  6. multiphonic
  7. multiphonics
  8. multiphonon
  9. multiphosphorylated
  10. multiphotography
  11. multiphoton

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