noun

definition

A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.

definition

(often in plural) An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message.

verb

definition

To give an overtone to.

Examples of overtone in a Sentence

The first overtone of the second will beat 64 times per second with the third of the first, and at such height in the scale this frequency will be unpleasant.

Unlike the lustrous shades of chocolate colored pearls, natural brown pearls are a warm black-brown color and sometimes have a very slight coppery colored overtone.

Thus, suppose a fundamental 256 has present with it overtone harmonics 512, 768, 1024, 1280, &c., and that we sound with it the major seventh with fundamental 480, and having harmonics 960, 1440, &c. The two sets may be arranged thus c 256 512 768 1024 1280 h 480 960 1440, and we see that the fundamental of the second will beat 32 times per second with the first overtone of the first, giving dissonance.

Any artistic abilities you may possess are given a strong dramatic overtone.

If the fork be mounted on a resonance box or held in front of a cavity resounding to the fundamental and not to the first overtone, the fundamental is brought out in great purity.

If, however, the pipe is blown strongly, the funda mental dies away, and the first overtone is predominant.

If it is touched in the middle with a feather, the edge of a card, or the finger nail, and bowed a quarter of the way along the octave, the first overtone comes out.

The first overtone has frequency 6.25 that of the fundamental, and is not in the harmonic series.

Try to determine the overtone of the pearls.

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