harmonic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Pertaining to harmony.

2. 2

   Pleasant to hear

   Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.

   • harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.
3. 3

   Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some…

   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.
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   1. 4

      Recurring periodically.

   2. 5

      Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be…

      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.

   3. 6

      Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular…

      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.).
   4. 7

      A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the…

      A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.

   5. 8

      The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a…

      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.

   6. 9

      One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly…

      One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.

   7. 10

      One's child.

      • Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
      • The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]

The neighborhood

• neighborharmonica
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