harmonics
pronunciation
How to pronounce harmonics in British English:
UK [hɑ:'mɒnɪks]
How to pronounce harmonics in American English:
US [hɑ'mɒnɪks]
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- Noun:
- the study of musical sound
Word Origin
- harmonics (n.)
- also harmonicks, 1650s, from harmonic; also see -ics.
Example
- 1. Similarly , the " rousing " or " joyous " timbre of a trumpet attests to its jagged array of harmonics .
- 2. For the most part , music also falls into the range of what we can hear . Though some of the harmonics that give voices and instruments their characteristic sounds are beyond our hearing range , the effects they produce are not .
- 3. Most sounds consist not of pure notes of a single gorgeous oscillating sine wave , but of harmonics , overlaid multiples of those sine waves , and the brain seizes on them as one , just as it treats the left and right half of a painting or a tree as elements of a single object .
- 4. Every sound , at least theoretically , presents a complex system of harmonics built on a fundamental tone .
- 5. While these appliances consume active power , as they are nonlinear loads , they also output harmonics and consume reactive power .