Harmonics - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Harmonics :  (noun)

1: the study of musical sound

Based on WordNet 2.0

Harmonics : \Har*mon"ics\, n. 1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

2. pl. (Mus.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

Example Usage of Harmonics

gravyfm: Now Playing: Bebel Gilberto - august day song (BPM:108 - Harmonics at 100.0%)
gravyfm: Now Playing: stephane pompougnac - fast and loud (BPM:104 - Harmonics at 100.0%)
gravyfm: Now Playing: Aerial - Love Faze (Fazing Mix) (BPM:107 - Harmonics at 100.0%)
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