Overtone : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Overtone	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overtone n (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair" a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency Synonym(s): overtone, partial, partial tone
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See {Over},{Tone}.] (Mus.) 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 [bd]partial[b8] tone; a harmonic. See {Harmonic}, and {Tone}. --Tyndall.