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Overtone   /ˈoʊvərtˌoʊn/   Listen
Overtone

noun
1.
(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality.
2.
A harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency.  Synonyms: partial, partial tone.





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"Overtone" Quotes from Famous Books



... in his smoothest, his most detached, his most languid manner, but with an overtone of exultancy that could not be ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... containing, in addition to gold, a small quantity of hypo and a considerable quantity of sulphocyanide of ammonium. Such a bath tones very rapidly, and gives most pleasing colors. It appears, moreover, to be impossible to overtone the citro-chloro emulsion paper with it in the sense that it is possible to overtone prints on albumenized paper with the ordinary alkaline bath. That is to say, it is impossible to produce a slaty ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 • Various
... morning . . . and there the crack across the mirror, the wriggling, distorted, foolish crack that seemed alive for all its sameness. And there was always the noise of wind which became a corollary of his pain, pulsing with it, never quiet, an overtone that tragically would ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple


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