Definition of "harmonic" in English

adjective

1. Pertaining to harmony.

2. Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.

3. (mathematics) Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.

   • The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.

4. Recurring periodically.

5. (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.

6. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.

noun

1. (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.

2. (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.

3. (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.

4. (CB radio slang) One's child.