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syntones

syntones is the plural of syntone.

Meaning of syntone

Noun

syntone (plural syntones)

  1. (historical) A unit of synthesized sound used in creating artificial voices.
    • […] syntones with sharp formants, very much reminding early computer music experiments with synthesized voices by Newman Guttman at Bell Laboratories in 1957 by means of Music4 software.2013, Dmitri Zakharine, Nils Meise, Electrified Voices (page 176)
  2. A person whose emotional state is in harmony with their environment.
  3. Synonym of syntonic comma.
    Synonyms:
    syntonic comma

Questions about syntones

What is syntones the plural of?
Syntones is the plural of syntone.

Words near syntones in the dictionary

  1. syntices
  2. synto
  3. syntocinon
  4. syntomic
  5. syntone
  6. syntones
  7. syntonic
  8. syntonic comma
  9. syntonic commas
  10. syntonical
  11. syntonically

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