Definition of Overtone
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(n.) 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.
Antonyms of Overtone
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Homophones of Overtone
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