Overtone in a sentence

Because "overtone" makes the upper partials seem like such a distinct phenomena, it leads to the mathematical problem described above where the first overtone is the second partial.

For the F3 bar that usually forms the lowest note on a vibraphone, there would be F3 as the fundamental, F5 as the first overtone and A6 as the second overtone.

The overtone modes are at frequencies which are approximate, but not exact odd integer multiples of that of the fundamental mode, and overtone frequencies are therefore not exact harmonics of the fundamental.

The strike took political overtone with the entire opposition extending their support.

But within the thunderous saber rattling over would-be asylum-seekers is the overtone of President ’s apparent long-term policy to deal with the anticipated social and political upheaval of rapidly worsening climate change.

That isn’t to say we haven’t faced charges before, we have, but there’s a frightening overtone to this whole era.

Velez demonstrated how the overtone goes up with the nasal sound and goes down with the more open sound.

A 4 in particular, which is at the seventh partial (sixth overtone) is nearly always 31 cents, or about one third of a semitone, flat of the minor seventh.

A badly designed oscillator circuit may suddenly begin oscillating on an overtone.

According to Alexander Ellis (in pages 24–25 of his definitive English translation of Helmholtz), the similarity of German "ober" to English "over" caused a Prof. Tyndall to mistranslate Helmholtz' term, thus creating "overtone".

Additionally the sound aesthetic of the baroque guitar (with its strong overtone presence) is very different from modern classical type guitars, as is shown below.

A fundamental crystal oscillator circuit is simpler and more efficient and has more pullability than a third overtone circuit.

An inappropriate value of the tank capacitor caused the crystal in a control board to be overdriven, jumping to an overtone, and causing the train to speed up instead of slowing down.

An interval is referred to as "perfect" when the harmonic relationship is found in the natural overtone series (namely, the unison 1:1, octave 2:1, fifth 3:2, and fourth 4:3).

A standing wave on a disk with two nodal lines crossing at the center; this is an overtone.

As with water, ice absorbs light at the red end of the spectrum preferentially as the result of an overtone of an oxygen–hydrogen (O–H) bond stretch.

At the same frequency and overtone, the strip has less pullability, higher resistance, and higher temperature coefficient.

For more accurate higher frequencies it is better to use a crystal with lower fundamental frequency, operating at an overtone.

Glacial ice has a distinctive blue tint because it absorbs some red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.

In acoustic terms, the interest that vibrato adds to the sound has to do with the way that the overtone mix citation (or tone color, or timbre) and the directional pattern of sound projection change with changes in pitch.