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PRONUNCIATION OF INHARMONIC

inharmonic  [ˌɪnhɑːˈmɒnɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INHARMONIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inharmonic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INHARMONIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inharmonicity

In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency. Acoustically, a note perceived to have a single distinct pitch in fact contains a variety of additional overtones. Many percussion instruments, such as cymbals, tam-tams, and chimes, create complex and inharmonic sounds. However, in stringed instruments such as the piano, violin, and guitar, or in some Indian drums such as tabla, the overtones are close to—or in some cases, quite exactly—whole number multiples of the fundamental frequency. Any departure from this ideal harmonic series is known as inharmonicity. The less elastic the strings are, the more inharmonicity they exhibit. Music harmony and intonation depends strongly on the harmonicity of tones. An ideal, homogeneous, infinitesimally thin or infinitely flexible string or column of air has exactly harmonic modes of vibration. In any real musical instrument, the resonant body that produces the music tone—typically a string, wire, or column of air—deviates from this ideal and has some small or large amount of inharmonicity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INHARMONIC


anharmonic
ˌænhɑːˈmɒnɪk
cacodemonic
ˌkækəˌdiːˈmɒnɪk
demonic
dɪˈmɒnɪk
disharmonic
ˌdɪshɑːˈmɒnɪk
dysharmonic
ˌdɪshɑːˈmɒnɪk
enharmonic
ˌɛnhɑːˈmɒnɪk
eudemonic
ˌjuːdiːˈmɒnɪk
euharmonic
ˌjuːhɑːˈmɒnɪk
harmonic
hɑːˈmɒnɪk
hegemonic
ˌhɛɡəˈmɒnɪk
hormonic
hɔːˈmɒnɪk
mnemonic
nɪˈmɒnɪk
nonharmonic
ˌnɒnhɑːˈmɒnɪk
pathognomonic
ˌpæθəɡnəˈmɒnɪk
philharmonic
ˌfɪlhɑːˈmɒnɪk
pneumonic
njuːˈmɒnɪk
pulmonic
pʌlˈmɒnɪk
sermonic
sɜːˈmɒnɪk
Solomonic
ˌsɒləˈmɒnɪk
subharmonic
ˌsʌbhɑːˈmɒnɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INHARMONIC

inhabitiveness
inhabitor
inhabitress
inhalant
inhalation
inhalational
inhalator
inhalatorium
inhale
inhaler
Inhambane
inharmonical
inharmonicity
inharmonious
inharmoniously
inharmoniousness
inharmony
inhaul
inhauler
inhaust

WORDS THAT END LIKE INHARMONIC

ammonic
antimnemonic
antimonic
bionic
chronic
cinnamonic
daimonic
electronic
eudaemonic
first harmonic
gnomonic
iconic
ionic
ironic
phlegmonic
sonic
symphonic
thanatognomonic
tonic
ultrasonic

Synonyms and antonyms of inharmonic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «inharmonic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INHARMONIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

不和谐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inarmónico
570 millions of speakers

English

inharmonic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनमेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير متآلف النغمات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нарушающий гармонию
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inharmonic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিসংবাদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inharmonieux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak harmoni
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unharmonischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

調和しない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부조화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inharmonik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đúng điệu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inharmonic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अमानवीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inharmonic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inarmonico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inharmonic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

що порушує гармонію
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

discordant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

inharmonic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onwel luidend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

icke-harmonisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inharmonic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inharmonic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INHARMONIC»

The term «inharmonic» is normally little used and occupies the 144.288 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INHARMONIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INHARMONIC»

Discover the use of inharmonic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inharmonic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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DAFX: Digital Audio Effects
As previously pointed out, by frequency warping the original piano tone with the inverse of the fitted Laguerre map, one transforms the originally inharmonic partials into a set of harmonic partials. This property can be exploited in order to ...
Udo Zölzer, 2011
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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
Example of the resolution of the second discord being inharmonic. No. 84. Inharmonic discord. The resolution of this discord being into the concord os the given note, the bass ascends by a semitone. The passage of this inharmonic by contrary ...
‎1773
3
The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal
The Background Structure of Arras I found a basis for relating harmonic and inharmonic ratios in Arras when 1 observed that inharmonic ratios produce spectra with both harmonic and inharmonic partials. Compare, for instance, the spectra of ...
Curtis Roads, 1992
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Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and ...
F.Mample of the resolution of the second discord being inharmonic. No. 84. Inharmonic discord. The resolution os this discord being into the concord os the given note, the bass ascends by a semitone. The passage of this inharmonic by ...
‎1771
5
Musical Imagery
Perceptual ambiguity of pitch and timbre in inharmonic sounds Inharmonic complex sounds as a rule cause ambiguity of pitch or rather pitches perceived. One reason why multiple pitches can be elicited is that in many such Sounds, spacing of ...
R.I. Godoy, H. Jorgensen, 2012
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA; Or, A DICTIONARY of Arts and ...
These are the concord of the give nate: therefore the resolution of this discord is into the concord of the given note. þ Example of the resolution os the second discord being inharmonic. No. 84. In/urman r'c discord. The resolution os this discord ...
‎1771
7
The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound ...
Inharmonic Partials Although GEN9 and GEN 19 can create inharmonic ( noninteger) partials, only par- tials that are either integers or .5 multiples should be used for wrap-around lookup operations. Other inharmonic partials typically generate ...
Richard Charles Boulanger, 2000
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Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in ...
5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Kristoffer Jensen. Perception of Harmonic and Inharmonic Sounds: Results from Ear Models ...
Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Kristoffer Jensen, 2009
9
Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
One application is to transform inharmonic sounds into harmonic equivalents. More interestingly, it can be used to create inharmonic instruments that retain much of the tonal quality of familiar (harmonic) instruments. Musical uses of such  ...
William A. Sethares, 2005
10
Nonlinearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and ...
(2.19) Tab. shows the detection ability of the similarity function, compared to the fractal correlation dimension discussed in a section below in terms of energy flow between harmonic and inharmonic sound components. With the measure of ...
Rolf Bader, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INHARMONIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inharmonic is used in the context of the following news items.
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DigiTech Reissues the DOD Gonkulator
“Ring modulation can create inharmonic overtones, which sound just like what their name implies – edgy, discordant, and jarring. But with the ... «Premier Guitar, Jul 15»
2
From the big bang to cosmic vibrations, Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart …
MICKEY HART: Because it's very inharmonic. It's very dense. There's a lot of collisions up there, and there's a lot of bumps and grinds and ... «PBS NewsHour, Jul 15»
3
Additive Synth For Reason
If you are in need of metallic inharmonic sounds, this is the functionality you need. With it you can quickly bend your sound to mimic highly rigid ... «Sonic State, Jun 15»
4
Red Panda Unveils the Raster Delay
It can be pushed to extremes for ring modulation and inharmonic shifted delays that distort and break apart. The Raster features an analog dry ... «Premier Guitar, Apr 15»
5
VST And AU Version Of Echobode
E.g. an overtone series of 100, 200, 300 Hz can be shifted by 50 Hz to 150, 250, 350 Hz, making the overtones inharmonic. Sonic Charge says ... «Sonic State, Apr 15»
6
Icicle talks DnB production, the universe and everything
... really the kind of thing I need to get right - find exactly the sort of dissonant ring that's typical for those drums, like an inharmonic resonance.". «MusicRadar.com, Apr 15»
7
As We Get Older We Get More Tolerant of Discordant Music
... whereas for dissonant intervals this is no longer the case: they look more like the irregular overtones for sounds that are 'inharmonic', such as ... «Smithsonian, Mar 15»
8
Patti Smith Performs Haunting, Unorthodox Nico Tribute
Toward the end, Paris Smith accompanied her mother on an inharmonic instrument called a waterphone, filling the theater with a pall of ... «RollingStone.com, Oct 14»
9
Compose Yourself: Prelude To Power Tones
The following passage, written in 1927, is about non-chord tones, which he calls “inharmonic points” (I still prefer “power tones”): “As light has ... «American Songwriter, Jun 14»
10
MESSE 2014: New Nord Desktop/Rackmount Synth
The new waveform engine generates 47 different waveforms from classic analog to digital harmonic and inharmonic waves. Using a single LFO ... «Sonic State, Mar 14»

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