harmonic motion

1. 1.

   a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions

   Broaderperiodic motion

   Narrowersimple harmonic motion

Questions about harmonic motion

What does harmonic motion mean?

harmonic motion means "a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions".

Is harmonic motion a common word?

harmonic motion 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.