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Overtone Common

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Overtone has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality

"overtones of despair"

2

a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

3

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