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Harmonic   /hɑrmˈɑnɪk/   Listen
Harmonic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm.  Antonym: nonharmonic.
2.
Of or relating to harmonics.
3.
Of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds.
4.
Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body.  Synonym: sympathetic.
5.
Involving or characterized by harmony.  Synonyms: consonant, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized.
noun
1.
A tone that is a component of a complex sound.
2.
Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental.



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"Harmonic" Quotes from Famous Books



... are in tune with the infinite spheres. You are a breath in a universal breeze. Therefore you feel no inconvenience. Get up, my child, and waltz an Oriental hesitation down the hall and convince yourself everlastingly that you are in truth only a mysterious unit in a universe of harmonic chords.' ...
— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston
... compositions in the scales of our art motifs than we have to weigh Greek rhythm of quantity or Saxon of alliteration against our weights by which we measure rhythm of rhyme and stress. In fact it is impossible for us even to judge concerning the true harmonic effect of these other measures, and it may well be doubted whether the very soul itself of our meter is not empty and tinny as compared with these ...
— Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex - with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs • William E. Gates
... insinuating a peeping-place through the curtain of the organ-gallery, was struck motionless by the double operation of curiosity and fear; while the organist, intent only on his performance, and spreading all his fingers to strike a swell of magnificent chords, felt his harmonic spirit ready to desert his body on being answered by the ghastly rattle of empty keys, and in the consequent agitato furioso of the internal movements of his feelings, was preparing to restore harmony by the segue subito of an appoggiatura con foco with the corner of a book of anthems ...
— Maid Marian • Thomas Love Peacock
... had, clung to the pines, muting their needles and stilling their branches, had dropped on during the day. Now the night wind which drove the clouds lingered through the pine tops and set them swaying gently in the vast, harmonic rhythm which is like the surging of a distant ocean. The everlasting whisper of the pines, that ancient hushed voice which through the countless centuries has never been still save when briefly silenced by the snow; which had borne its message to Gloria ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... not only the main undulation itself, but the several superposed harmonics which give to the note its timbre. So also we can analyze the undulation of the tide, and show the component parts. The decomposition is effected by the process known as harmonic analysis. The principle of the method may be very simply described. Let us fix our attention on any particular "tide," for so the various elements are denoted. We can always determine beforehand, ...
— Time and Tide - A Romance of the Moon • Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball


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