Meanings
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noun
the study of musical sounds, harmony, and their acoustic relationships
The course approaches harmonics through both musical theory and physics.
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noun
tones whose frequencies are whole-number multiples of a fundamental frequency
The violinist lightly touched the string to produce clear upper harmonics.
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Etymology
The plural or collective noun of harmonic, ultimately from Greek harmonikos ("harmonious, skilled in music"), from harmonia ("joining, agreement"). As a field name, harmonics denotes the science of musical sounds.