overtone in English

noun
1
a musical tone that is a part of the harmonic series above a fundamental note and may be heard with it.
This third phase of tonal theory argued in favour of a natural basis for major - minor tonality in the overtones of the harmonic series.
2
a subtle or subsidiary quality, implication, or connotation.
the decision may have political overtones

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1. Yourself your god, your star, Fate's overtone.

2. Key words: local mode, overtone transition, absolute intensity, photoacoustic spectroscopy.

3. Brimstone is a Western with a very dark and cruel overtone

4. Constructed with 2-plies of 7-mil Clear film, Pinstripe® Coated drumheads have an overtone reducing agent applied between the 2-plies providing overtone control with increased attack

5. There was an overtone of regret in his farewell speech.

6. Connotation is the feeling, emotion, cultural implication, or overtone associated with the word

7. Virture and feasibility of using coherent lasers to perform overtone excitation are proposed.

8. Chenran's novella Nowhere to say goodbye showed sharp existentialism philosophy overtone.

9. His words were polite but there an overtone of anger in his voice.

10. The string is said to be vibrating in its first overtone mode.

11. When two quanta are absorbed the first overtone is excited, and so on to higher overtones.

12. To overcome the shortcoming of the traditional overtone method, a higher overtonemethod to determine the thick.

13. To blow ( a wind instrument ) so as to produce an overtone instead of a fundamental tone.

14. Differing from the fundamental flexural mode, the first overtone mode oscillation shows two Antinodes, oscillating in counterphase

15. 26 Many varieties also have a vegetable or fruity overtone, variously described as cucumber or melon.

16. And resolution has a musical overtone that I like as well: the progression of a dissonant chord to a consonant one.

17. Furthermore, that overtone was of deep concern to all colonizing nations troubled about the issue of racial contact and race mixture.

18. Chorale Here begins the 'acoustic Chorale', a sequence of six- or seven-pitch chords imbued with intervallic allusions to the acoustic overtone series

19. Evans EQ3 Resonant Bass drumheads feature a fixed internal overtone control ring which enhances the bottom end sound of your drum while keeping high frequenc

20. Since triple overtone voltage will increase accordingly when there is load in the generator, it can activate constant voltage on its own without any other voltage automatic governor.

21. (A shoulder band usually appears on the lower wavenumber side in primary and secondary liquid Amines arising from the overtone of the N–H bending band: this can confuse

22. In many places, this division takes on a racial overtone as the skilled belong mainly to one ethnic group clearly distinct from that of the semi-skilled or unskilled workers.

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24. Ancillary and auxiliary is the Adscititious presence of oxygen, trapped within the myriad folds of the copious layers of clothing favoured by elderly women. Examples from Classical Literature All notice, and some enjoy, this Adscititious literary overtone.