Overtone
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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Overtone Translations
overtone in Dutch is bijtoon, boventoon
overtone in French is sous-entendu, harmonique
overtone in German is harmonische Oberschwingung
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