overtone
physics specialized
one of the frequencies(= numbers of waves produced in a fixed period) in an oscillation(= a regular change in a wave or electric current) or wave:
A single frequency with its harmonics progressively broadens when the discharge current is increased.
These harmonics generate a sound somewhere between a roar and a musical chord.
He had a way of playing harmonics on his guitar in which the sound had an ethereal quality.
A complex sound has, in addition to the fundamental frequency, overtones or upper harmonics.
In the first movement, the oscillations contain both fundamental tones and harmonics.

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acciaccatura
accidental
aeolian
aleatory
alto clef
antiphonal
discordant
harmonic progression
harmony
hemidemisemiquaver
inversion
Ionian
overtone
rubato
scherzando
scordatura
secco recitative
secondo
staccato
whole step

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Figure 2 illustrates a series of monan operations applied to the amplitude envelopes of the harmonics of a sung vocal 'ah' sound.
The necessary time averages in equation (6) are easily computed making use of the orthogonality of the spherical harmonics.
On the other hand, harmonics generated in a laser-plasma interaction may offer an alternative efficient method.
However, for attosecond pulses, generation high order harmonics is implied.
A shor t analysis of the different physical mechanisms giving rise to harmonics generation is presented.
In the three figures the circular and triangular data points are relative to the 13 th and to the 5 th harmonics, respectively.
There is another possibility that may help in harmonics generation with pulses longer than 100 fs.
Even when the fundamental frequency is masked, it may be recovered from the pulse period and the surviving harmonics.
The nonlinear interaction between harmonics generates a mean flow outside the dissipative layer.
In nonlinear theory, however, the mean values of perturbations can be non-zero owing to the interaction of the different harmonics.
We can easily find the 0 particle pitch angle for which the number of the cyclotron harmonics contributing to (2.11) is maximum.
In general, the localization regions of different longitudinal harmonics overlap.
The same is true for and hence the source term in (1) generates just odd harmonics.
Owing to this effect, one can say that the modulational interactions keeping the harmonics together always increase the damping.
The actual pattern that develops will be a sum of these two components and all other higher harmonics.
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