pure tone

1. 1.

   a steady sound without overtones

   “they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies”

   Synonymstone

   Broadersound

   Narrowerharmonic

Questions about pure tone

What does pure tone mean?

pure tone means "a steady sound without overtones".

What is another word for pure tone?

Close synonyms include tone. 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 pure tone a common word?

pure tone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.