harmonic -
a tone that is a component of a complex sound
pure tone,
tone (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"
harmonic -
any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
timbre,
quality,
timber,
tone (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
Adjective
harmonic -
of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill
harmonic -
of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response"
harmonic -
relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration"
harmonic -
Attribute of many mathematical entities that only in few cases are obviously related.
Wikipedia
A harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency, i.e. if the fundamental frequency is f, the harmonics have frequencies 2f, 3f, 4f, . etc. The harmonics have the property that they are all periodic at the fundamental frequency, therefore the sum of harmonics is also periodic at that frequency.
