Usually means: Multiple independent melodies played simultaneously.
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  1. polyphony: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polyphony: Merriam-Webster
  3. polyphony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polyphony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polyphony: Collins English Dictionary
  6. polyphony: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polyphony, polyphony: Wordnik
  8. polyphony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. polyphony: Wiktionary
  10. polyphony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polyphony: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polyphony: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Polyphony, polyphony: Dictionary.com
  14. polyphony: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Polyphony (Russian Orthodox liturgy), Polyphony (Weiner), Polyphony (choir), Polyphony (disambiguation), Polyphony (instrument), Polyphony (literature), Polyphony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Polyphony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. polyphony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. polyphony: Rhymezone
  19. Polyphony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. polyphony: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. polyphony: FreeDictionary.org
  22. polyphony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. polyphony: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Polyphony: Multimedia Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polyphony: Encyclopedia

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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noun:  (music) Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
noun:  (literature) The quality of a text of being able to be read in more than one way.

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