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anharmonicity — noun Of or pertaining to the deviation of a system from harmonicity (being a harmonic oscillator) See Also: anharmonic, harmonicity, inharmonicity … Wiktionary
Cello — This article is about the stringed musical instrument. For other uses, see Cello (disambiguation). Cello Cello, front and side view String Other names Violoncello Hornbos … Wikipedia
Harmonic series (music) — Harmonic series of a string. Pitched musical instruments are often based on an approximate harmonic oscillator such as a string or a column of air, which oscillates at numerous frequencies simultaneously. At these resonant frequencies, waves… … Wikipedia
Harmony — This article is about musical harmony and harmonies. For other uses of the term, see Harmony (disambiguation). Disharmony redirects here. For the episode of Angel, see Disharmony (Angel) … Wikipedia
Inharmonicity — In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (known as partials, partial tones, or harmonics) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency. Acoustically, a note perceived to have a single distinct pitch… … Wikipedia
Debye-Waller factor — The Debye Waller factor (DWF), named after Peter Debye and Ivar Waller, is used in condensed matter physics to describe the attenuation of x ray scattering or neutron scattering caused by thermal motion or quenched disorder. It has also been… … Wikipedia
Harshness — (also called raucousness), in music information retrieval, is a Non Contextual Low Level Audio Descriptors (NLDs) that represents one dimension of the multi dimensional psychoacoustic feature called as musical timbre.Classical timbre’ NLDs are… … Wikipedia
sound — sound1 soundable, adj. /sownd/, n. 1. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium. 2. mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium, traveling in air at a… … Universalium
Sound — /sownd/, n. The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 mi. (140 km) long; 3 30 mi. (5 48 km) wide. Swedish and Danish, Oresund. * * * I Mechanical disturbance that propagates as a longitudinal wave… … Universalium
harmonic construction — ▪ mathematics in projective geometry, determination of a pair of points C and D that divides a line segment AB harmonically (see Figure >), that is, internally and externally in the same ratio, the internal ratio CA/CB being equal to the… … Universalium
