Overtone

n.

1.

(Mus.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

Noun	1.	overtone - (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair"
	2.	overtone - a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency Synonyms: partial tone, partial

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