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Timbre

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Noun

1. quality, timber, timbre, tone

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

Example Sentences:
'the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely'
'the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Timbre

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noun
1. phonetics
the distinctive tone quality differentiating one vowel or sonant from another
2. music
tone colour or quality of sound, esp a specific type of tone colour

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Timbre

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noun
the characteristic quality of sound that distinguishes one voice or musical instrument from another or one vowel sound from another: it is determined by the harmonics of the sound and is distinguished from the intensity and pitch

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

Timbre

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n.
1. The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume.
2. Distinctive character: the timbre of the painter's work.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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