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OVERTONES
Noun
overtones
plural of overtone
Verb
overtones
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overtone
Source: Wiktionary
OVERTONE
O"ver*tone`, n. Etym: [A translation of G. oberton. See Over,Tone.] (Mus.)
Definition: One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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