harmonic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a tone that is a component of a complex sound
noun any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
adjective of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; - Ralph Hill

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic.

The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors. — Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The harmonic telegraph seemed as far away from completion as ever. — Ted and the Telephone, Sara Ware Bassett
Again, geometrical, and harmonic, and astronomical science are all theoretical, for they do nothing, and produce nothing. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius

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