Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

harmonic series

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables: har-mon-ic series
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The divergent series whose terms are the reciprocals of the positive integers; the series ∑ₙ₌₁ ᪲1/n.

noun

The sequence of all positive integer multiples of a base frequency.

Questions

What does harmonic series mean?: The divergent series whose terms are the reciprocals of the positive integers; the series ∑ₙ₌₁ ᪲1/n.

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