overtone

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for overtone

overtone 🔊 /owˈvɚtowˌn/

overtone : උපරිතානය

overtone : උපරිතාන

overtone definition

Noun. 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.