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Overtone

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(n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Overtone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/overtone.html. 1828.
 
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