Adjective
harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)
- Pertaining to harmony.
- Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (phonology) 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.
- (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages: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.).
Translations
mathematical attribute of mathematical entities
phonology: exhibiting or applying vowel constraints in a word
Noun
harmonic (plural harmonics)
- (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
- (music) 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.
- (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
- (CB radio slang) One's child.
1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140:Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
1988, Amateur Radio, volume 44, numbers 1-6, page 38:The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]
Translations
a component frequency of the signal of a wave
— see also overtone
- Bulgarian: хармонична (bg) f (harmonična)
- Czech: harmonická f
- Dutch: harmonische (nl) c
- Maori: hawarite
- Russian: гармо́ника (ru) (garmónika)
- Thai: ฮาร์มอนิก, ทวีคูณความถี่
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