Harmonics is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HARMONICS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• HARMONIC, a musical tone with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
• an overtone accompanying a fundamental tone at a fixed interval, produced by vibration of a string, column of air, etc. in an exact fraction of its length.
• a note produced on a musical instrument as an overtone, e.g. by lightly touching a string while sounding it.
• a component frequency of an oscillation or wave.
• a division of the zodiacal circle by a specified number, used in the interpretation of a birth chart
• science of musical sounds
• 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.
• the study of musical sound
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to or characterized by harmony
• relating to or denoting a harmonic or harmonics.
• relating to a harmonic progression
• relating to component frequencies of a complex oscillation or wave
• using or produced by the application of a harmonic

Words related to HARMONICS

harmonic15

Words that contain HARMONICS

subharmonics21 philharmonics25

How to use HARMONICS in a sentence

• It was no violin tone, beautifully complex with harmonics, but the clear simple voice of the flute.
• But the discordant note had been struck, and its harmonics tingled in the brain.
• Yet why should we wonder at such, either, when we have Commentaries on Shakspeare, and Harmonics of the Gospels? And now you have the little all I have to write.
• Strangely enough these primitive notes of music correspond to the first two of those harmonics which are part and parcel of every musical sound.
• This addition of the third would thus fall in with the law of harmonics again.
• By weighing the different hammers, so the story goes, he obtained the knowledge of harmonics or overtones, namely, the fundamental, octave, fifth, third, etc.
• Only the harmonics were played on the marine trumpet.
• The same of music and other harmonics which may come to us through the sense of hearing.
• A tone having no harmonics is rare in nature and is not an attractive one.
• The tones of the human voice are rich in harmonics.
• The higher the fingers ascend on the strings, the more firmly they should press them, otherwise the harmonics are apt to grow shrill and lose in clearness.
• The majority of students have trouble with their harmonics, because they do not practice them in this way.
• Of course the quality of the harmonics produced varies with the quality of the strings that produce them.
• First class strings are an absolute necessity for the production of pure harmonics.
• Harmonics, where clarity is the most important thing, are mainly a matter of bowing, of a sure attack and sustaining by the bow.
• When an artist is working over his harmonics, he must not be impatient and force purity, pitch, or the right intonation.
• On the concert stage if the player stands in a draught the harmonics are sometimes husky.
• Natural harmonics may be formed on the major triad of each open string, using the open string as the tonic.
• My experience has been that pupils do not pay nearly enough attention to the intonation of harmonics.
• Too often a student can give the fingering of certain double harmonics and cannot use it.
• But harmonics were one of the things I had to master before Professor Auer would allow me to appear in public.

Similar words containing HARMONIC without suffix s

harmonic15 harmonica16 anharmonic17 enharmonic17 euharmonic17 harmonical17 harmonicas17 harmonicon17 inharmonic17 disharmonic19 dysharmonic22 harmonicist18 harmonicons18 nonharmonic18 subharmonic20 enharmonical19 harmonically22 harmonichord23 harmonicists19 inharmonical19 philharmonic24 subharmonics21 harmonichords24 inharmonicity23 panharmonicon22 philharmonics25 physharmonica28 enharmonically24 panharmonicons23 physharmonicas29 inharmonicities22

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