Overtone - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition overtone

Definition :

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental 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 ldquopartialrdquo tone a harmonic See Harmonic and Tone