Found 2 items, similar to overtone.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: overtone overtone n 1: (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; “overtones of despair” 2: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency [syn: partial, partial tone]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Overtone Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See Over, Tone.] (Mus.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or “partial” tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. --Tyndall. [1913 Webster]