Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overtone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See
{Over},{Tone}.] (Mus.)
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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
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