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Meaning Of Overtone
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.