Usually means: Frequencies that are integer multiples.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. harmonic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harmonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harmonic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harmonic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harmonic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harmonic, harmonic: Wordnik
  7. harmonic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harmonic: Wiktionary
  9. harmonic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harmonic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harmonic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. harmonic: Dictionary.com
  13. harmonic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Harmonic (disambiguation), Harmonic (electrical power), Harmonic (mathematics), Harmonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Harmonic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. harmonic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. harmonic: Rhymezone
  18. Harmonic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. harmonic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. harmonic: Free Dictionary
  21. harmonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. harmonic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. harmonic: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. harmonic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Harmonic: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Harmonic: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. harmonic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. harmonic: The Folk File
  2. harmonic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. harmonic: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. harmonic: Electronics
  3. Base Fibre optique (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. HARMONIC: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See harmonically as well.)

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adjective:  Pertaining to harmony.
adjective:  Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
adjective:  (mathematics) Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
adjective:  Recurring periodically.
adjective:  (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
adjective:  (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
noun:  (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
noun:  (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
noun:  (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
noun:  (CB radio slang) One's child.

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