"Overtone" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
I can not bear to see such woes of the heart in the eyes of my beloved.
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Little Tommy's kindergarten class was on a field trip to their local police station. There they saw pictures tacked to a big bulletin board. The label clearly read, "The 10 Most Wanted."One of the youngsters pointed to a picture and asked if it really was the photo of a wanted person."Yes," said the policeman, "the detectives want him very badly."So Little Tommy asked, while tugging on the man's belt, "Um, mister, why didn't you keep them when you took their pictures?"
One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; …
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