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Overtone synonyms

ō'vər-tōn'

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meaning (related)
A sense of importance or purpose:
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association
A group of individuals meeting or associated for fellowship or a common purpose. See also freedom of association.
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implication
The definition of implication is something that is inferred.
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partial
A partial artificial denture
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tone
A certain attitude on the part of a speaker or writer conveyed by way of word choice, sentence structure, etc.
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inference
(Countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
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hint
A slight indication or intimation:
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connotation
An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing:
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innuendo
A section in a libel pleading explaining the plaintiff’s construction of the defendant’s allegedly libelous utterances.
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insinuation
The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
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intimation
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
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harmonic (related)
An alternating-current voltage or current or a component of such voltage or current, whose frequency is some integral multiple of a fundamental frequency
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partial tone
(Acoustics, Music) Any of the pure, or harmonic, tones forming a complex tone; harmonic
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lyricism (related)
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subtext (related)
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sensibility (related)
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fervour (related)
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undercurrent (related)
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suggestion (related)
(Countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
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undertone (related)
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  • The first overtone of the second will beat 64 times per second with the third of the first, and at such height in the scale this frequency will be unpleasant.

  • Unlike the lustrous shades of chocolate colored pearls, natural brown pearls are a warm black-brown color and sometimes have a very slight coppery colored overtone.

  • Thus, suppose a fundamental 256 has present with it overtone harmonics 512, 768, 1024, 1280, &c., and that we sound with it the major seventh with fundamental 480, and having harmonics 960, 1440, &c. The two sets may be arranged thus c 256 512 768 1024 1280 h 480 960 1440, and we see that the fundamental of the second will beat 32 times per second with the first overtone of the first, giving dissonance.

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