"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.
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One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; …
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