Vocabulary : Harmonic to Harmonite
Harmonic : Alt. of Harmonical ;; A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.Harmonica : A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones. ;; A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
Harmonical : Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. ;; Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body. ;; Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like.
Harmonicon : A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
Harmonics : The doctrine or science of musical sounds. ;; Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.