har·mon·ic
här-ˈmä-nik 
1
: musical
2
: of or relating to musical harmony or a harmonic
3
: pleasing to the ear : harmonious
4
: of an integrated nature : congruous
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
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Adjective
the desire to live the kind of harmonic life in which work and family are perfectly balanced
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
This is achieved with quantum harmonics played in headphones.
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Adjective
Using this approach, the team demonstrated arbitrary pulse shaping, tunable second-harmonic generation, holographic generation of spatio-spectrally structured light, and real-time inverse design of nonlinear-optical functions.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
Being able to show Jeremy how to play harmonic was really interesting and cool.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
This is achieved with quantum harmonics played in headphones.
—Spencer Whaley, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Harmonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harmonic. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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1 of 2 adjective
har·mon·ic
här-ˈmän-ik
: of or relating to musical harmony as opposed to melody or rhythm
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