harmonic
/hɑɹˈmɑnɪk/
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to harmony.
adj
Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
adj
Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
adj
adj
Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
adj
Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
noun
A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
noun
The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
Example Sentences
- "harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass."
- "The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line."
- "A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.)."
- "Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all."
- "The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂er-, harmonicus, ἁρμονικός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɑɹˈmɑnɪk/
- British English: /hɑːˈmɒnɪk/