meaning of overtone
1. One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc. ; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.
2. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
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