Harmonics

Entertainment / Music / Harmonics: Individual pure sounds that are part of any musical tone: in string instruments, crystalline tones in the very high register, produced by lightly touching a vibrating string at a certain point.
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Overtone

Technology / Home Audio / Overtone: Similar in concept to a harmonic. Overtones are sounds produced by an instrument (or sound source) that are higher in frequency than the fundamental frequency. They may or may not coincide with the fr MORE

Octave

Technology / Home Audio / Octave: In audio, the interval between any two frequencies having a ratio of 2 to 1. One octave up from 100 Hz is 200 Hz, where one octave down from 100 Hz is 50 Hz. A harmonic is a doubling (2nd harmonic), t MORE

Overtide

Science / Tides and Currents / Overtide: A harmonic tidal (or tidal current) constituent with a speed that is an exact multiple of the speed of one of the fundamental constituents derived from the development of the tide-producing force. The MORE

Flat Response

Technology / Home Audio / Flat Response: An output signal in which fundamental frequencies and harmonics are in the same proportion as those of the input signal being amplified. A flat frequency response would exhibit relatively equal respon MORE

Hum Components

Technology / Home Audio / Hum Components: The residual artifact harmonics of the AC power supply. In the U.S. the use a 60-Hz system, places the most annoying 2nd and 3rd harmonics at 120 Hz and 180 Hz. For Europe, and other parts of the worl MORE

Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)

Technology / Home Audio / Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): Total harmonic distortion is a measure of the how much a given audio device may distort a signal through the introduction of added harmonics or overtones. These figures are usually given as percentage MORE