fundamental frequency

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   the lowest tone of a harmonic series

   Synonymsfundamentalfirst harmonic

   Broaderharmonic

Questions about fundamental frequency

What does fundamental frequency mean?

fundamental frequency means "the lowest tone of a harmonic series".

What is another word for fundamental frequency?

Close synonyms include fundamental, first harmonic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fundamental frequency a common word?

fundamental frequency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.