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Overtone

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Noun

1. overtone

(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality

Example Sentences:
'overtones of despair'

2. overtone, partial, partial tone

a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Overtone

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noun
1. (often plural)
additional meaning or nuance
overtones of despair
2. music, acoustics
any of the tones, with the exception of the fundamental, that constitute a musical sound and contribute to its quality, each having a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
See also harmonic (sense 7), partial (sense 6)

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Overtone

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noun
1.  Acoustics and Music
any of the attendant higher tones heard with a fundamental tone produced by the vibration of a given string or column of air, having a frequency of vibration that is an exact multiple of the frequency of the fundamental
2. 
an implication; nuance
usually used in pl.
a reply full of overtones

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Overtone

see synonyms of overtone
n.
1. An ulterior, usually implicit meaning or quality; an implication or a hint: an overtone of anger barely masked; praise with overtones of envy.
2. See harmonic.

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