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Meaning of "formant" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FORMANT

formant  [ˈfɔːmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORMANT

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Formant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FORMANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Formant

Formants are defined by Gunnar Fant as "the spectral peaks of the sound spectrum of the voice". In speech science and phonetics, formant is also used to mean an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract. It is often measured as an amplitude peak in the frequency spectrum of the sound, using a spectrogram or a spectrum analyzer, though in vowels spoken with a high fundamental frequency, as in a female or child voice, the frequency of the resonance may lie between the widely-spread harmonics and hence no peak is visible. In acoustics, it refers to a peak in the sound envelope and/or to a resonance in sound sources, notably musical instruments, as well as that of sound chambers. Any room can be said to have a formant unique to that particular room, due to the way sound may bounce differently across its walls and objects. Room formants of this nature reinforce themselves by emphasizing specific frequencies and absorbing others, as exploited, for example, by Alvin Lucier in his piece I Am Sitting in a Room.

Definition of formant in the English dictionary

The definition of formant in the dictionary is any of several frequency ranges within which the partials of a sound, esp a vowel sound, are at their strongest, thus imparting to the sound its own special quality, tone colour, or timbre.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORMANT


advertisement
ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt
affirmant
əˈfɜːmənt
agreement
əˈɡriːmənt
apartment
əˈpɑːtmənt
conferment
kənˈfɜːmənt
debarment
dɪˈbɑːmənt
deferment
dɪˈfɜːmənt
disagreement
ˌdɪsəˈɡriːmənt
disbarment
dɪsˈbɑːmənt
disinterment
ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːmənt
dormant
ˈdɔːmənt
garment
ˈɡɑːmənt
informant
ɪnˈfɔːmənt
interment
ɪnˈtɜːmənt
misinformant
ˌmɪsɪnˈfɔːmənt
nondormant
ˌnɒnˈdɔːmənt
sarment
ˈsɑːmənt
Stormont
ˈstɔːmənt
undergarment
ˈʌndəˌɡɑːmənt
withdrawment
wɪðˈdrɔːmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORMANT

formality
formalizable
formalization
formalize
formalizer
formally
formally valid
formalness
formamide
Forman
format
formate
formation
formation dance
formation dancing
formation flying
formation rules
formational
formative
formative assessment

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORMANT

adamant
calmant
claimant
clamant
counterclaimant
declaimant
geomant
polysemant
proclaimant
reclaimant
transhumant

Synonyms and antonyms of formant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «formant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORMANT

Find out the translation of formant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of formant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «formant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

共振峰
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

formante
570 millions of speakers

English

formant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

formant
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صفة صوت الكلام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

формант
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

formante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

formant
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

formants
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Formant
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Formanten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フォルマント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포먼트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Formant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

formant
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

formant
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फॉर्मॅनंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

formant
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

formante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

formant
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

формант
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

formant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

formant
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

formant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

formant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

formant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of formant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORMANT»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORMANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about formant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORMANT»

Discover the use of formant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to formant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dysarthria: A Physiological Approach to Assessment and Treatment
4.4.5 Formant analysis Formants are the resonant frequencies of the vocal tract ( Fry, 1984). Consequently, observation of the formant structure of a sound can provide the researcher/clinician with some degree of insight into the size and shape ...
B. E. Murdoch, 1998
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Clinical Measurement of Speech and Voice
FORMANT MEASUREMENT Formants can be described in terms of three parameters: (1) frequency, (2) amplitude, and (3) bandwidth. The latter two are of limited interest to the speech clinician, and therefore will not be considered here.
Ronald J. Baken, Robert F. Orlikoff, 2000
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Springer Handbook of Speech Processing
unit circle), each spectral peak having such a phase shift is normally a formant. The phase shift approaches −180° for small formant bandwidths. In cases where two formants appear as one broad spectral peak, a modified discrete Fourier ...
Jacob Benesty, M. M. Sondhi, Yiteng Huang, 2008
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The Psychology of Music
Formant frequencies are determined by the dimensions of the vocal tract, that is, by articulation, as mentioned. An articulatory configuration that clusters F3, F4, and F5 in such a way that a singer's formant cluster is generated involves a wide  ...
Diana Deutsch, 2012
5
Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics
techniques, which we will discuss in Chapter 5, also tend to have difficulties in deriving formant frequencies for speech signals that have high fundamental frequencies. In contrast, the perception of speech in human listeners is only marginally ...
Philip Lieberman, 1988
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The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
The formant frequencies in classical singing differ between voice classifications. Thus, basses have lower formant frequencies than baritones, who have lower formant frequencies than tenors. These differences probably reflect differences in  ...
Raymond D. Kent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
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Techniques in Speech Acoustics
(7.4) In this case, r = e-(6"'/2), bw is the formant bandwidth in radians and u; is the formant centre frequency (also in radians). The coefficient of the input, A, is a constant which, when equal to the coefficients of the output (.4 = 1 — 2r cos(u;) + r2) ...
J. Harrington, Steve Cassidy, 1999
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Aspects of Altaic Civilization III: Proceedings of the ...
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 19-25, 1987 Denis Sinor. generally lower the formant frequencies, formant bandwidths and formant ...
Denis Sinor, 1990
9
Acoustic Phonetics: A Course of Basic Readings
vowels suggest that the ear averages the two not widely separated for- mants of the back vowels, which is to say that the two formants should be replaceable by one formant which is properly intermediate. In the case of /ui y a/ we may suppose ...
D. B. Fry, 2009
10
Speech Processing: A Dynamic and Optimization-Oriented Approach
However, for a subset of speech sounds, voiced sounds with negligible coupling to the nasal and subglottal systems, extension of the all-pole, single-formant resonator discussed in Section 1.4.2 to an all-pole, multiple- formant resonator will ...
Li Deng, Douglas O'Shaughnessy, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORMANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term formant is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Stunning Baltimore Art Initiatives Trying To Mend A Shattered City
The silent auction featured donations from nearly 90 local artists and vendors, including LiBBY Formant Art, Alison Elizabeth Keener, and ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
2
ATA continues at Statehouse Convention Center
Cons of Formant are at the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. The Big Dam Horns play at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $6. Nashville's Kent Goolsby and The Gold ... «Arkansas Times, Jul 15»
3
CAMEROUN :: Max Bardet, le pilote français qui pulvérisa les pays …
La réaction chimique est modérée par une poudre contenant du naphtalène (na) et du palmitate (palm) de sodium (ou d'aluminium), formant ... «camer.be, Jul 15»
4
Sida: résultats prometteurs d'un vaccin expérimental sur des singes
Dans un second temps, ils leur ont donné une sorte de rappel avec, cette fois, une protéine purifiée formant l'enveloppe du VIH, déclenchant ... «Starducongo, Jul 15»
5
Les autorités locales de Tanger parviennent à évacuer 400 …
... tient constamment au chevet de nos pays respectifs», a-t-il souligné, formant l'espoir de ne plus voir de tels agissements se reproduire dans ... «LE MATiN, Jul 15»
6
Résultats prometteurs d'un vaccin expérimental
Dans un second temps, ils leur ont donné une sorte de rappel avec, cette fois, une protéine purifiée formant l'enveloppe du VIH, déclenchant ... «Tribune de Genève, Jul 15»
7
Microsoft Slates Gamescom Press Event For August 4th; Crackdown …
Phil Spencer made reference to this formant trio during Microsoft's E3 presser, excusing their absence and asking fans to be excited about their ... «We Got This Covered, Jun 15»
8
Summer Stadium Festival : Dancefloor géant au Nouveau Stade …
... avec deux grands dragons blancs déambulant sur la scène, Felix Jaehn fait le show en dansant derrière ses platines et formant le cœur avec ... «France Net Infos, Jun 15»
9
Kendall Jenner, la nouvelle rivale de Kim Kardashian ?
En effet, avec une simple d'elle, allongée sur le sol, dans une robe en dentelle et ses cheveux formant des cœurs, Kendall Jenner a réussi à ... «Staragora, Jun 15»
10
Une explosion dans un parc fait plus de 500 blessés
... personnes étaient rassemblées dans le parc «Formosa Fun Coast» à New Taipei City, commune formant une couronne autour de la capitale ... «Le Matin Online, Jun 15»

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