harmonic
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adjective \här-ˈmä-nik\Definition of HARMONIC
1
: musical
2
: of or relating to musical harmony or a harmonic
3
: pleasing to the ear : harmonious
See Examples of HARMONIC
- <the desire to live the kind of harmonic life in which work and family are perfectly balanced>
First Known Use of HARMONIC
1570
Related to HARMONIC
- Synonyms
- balanced, congruous, consonant, eurythmic (or eurhythmic), harmonious
- Antonyms
- disharmonic, disharmonious, incongruous, inharmonic, inharmonious, unbalanced
Rhymes with HARMONIC
Aaronic, atonic, benthonic, bionic, boronic, Brittonic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, colonic, cyclonic, daimonic, demonic, draconic, dystonic, euphonic, hadronic, hedonic, hydronic, iconic, ionic, Ionic, laconic, Masonic, mnemonic, moronic, neutronic, photonic, phytonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, pythonic, sardonic, sermonic, Slavonic, subsonic, symphonic, synchronic, tectonic, Teutonic, transonic
2harmonic
nounDefinition of HARMONIC
1
a : overtone; especially : one whose vibration frequency is an integral multiple of that of the fundamental b : a flutelike tone produced on a stringed instrument by touching a vibrating string at a nodal point
2
: a component frequency of a complex wave (as of electromagnetic energy) that is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency
First Known Use of HARMONIC
1777
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