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harmonic definition

har·monic (här mänik)

adjective

  1. harmonious in feeling or effect; agreeing
  2. Math. designating or of a harmonic progression
  3. Music
    1. of or pertaining to harmony rather than to melody or rhythm
    2. of or pertaining to a harmonic

Etymology: L harmonicus < Gr harmonikos < harmonia, harmony

noun

  1. an alternating-current voltage or current or a component of such voltage or current, whose frequency is some integral multiple of a fundamental frequency
  2. any of the pure tones making up a composite tone, including the fundamental and its upper partials or overtones; partial tone

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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