harmonic

Meanings

Adjective

• pertaining to harmony
• pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious
• recurring periodically
• Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
• Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.

Noun

• A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
• The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
• One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
• One's child.

Origin

• From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός, from ἁρμονία.