partial tone

1. 1.

   a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

   Synonymsovertonepartial

   Broaderharmonic

Questions about partial tone

What does partial tone mean?

partial tone means "a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency".

What is another word for partial tone?

Close synonyms include overtone, partial. 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 partial tone a common word?

partial tone 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.