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PRONUNCIATION OF INHARMONICITY

inharmonicity  [ˌɪnhɑːməˈnɪsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INHARMONICITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inharmonicity 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 INHARMONICITY 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.

Definition of inharmonicity in the English dictionary

The definition of inharmonicity in the dictionary is the quality of being inharmonic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INHARMONICITY


allergenicity
ˌælədʒəˈnɪsɪtɪ
antigenicity
ˌæntɪdʒəˈnɪsɪtɪ
atonicity
ˌætəˈnɪsɪtɪ
canonicity
ˌkænəˈnɪsɪtɪ
chronicity
krɒˈnɪsɪtɪ
clonicity
klɒˈnɪsɪtɪ
conicity
kɒˈnɪsɪtɪ
ethnicity
ɛθˈnɪsɪtɪ
hypertonicity
ˌhaɪpətəʊˈnɪsɪtɪ
hypotonicity
ˌhaɪpətəˈnɪsɪtɪ
ionicity
ˌaɪəˈnɪsɪtɪ
isotonicity
ˌaɪsəʊtəʊˈnɪsɪtɪ
monotonicity
ˌmɒnəʊtɒˈnɪsɪtɪ
oncogenicity
ˌɒŋkəʊdʒəˈnɪsɪtɪ
pathogenicity
ˌpæθədʒɛˈnɪsɪtɪ
synchronicity
ˌsɪnkrəˈnɪsɪtɪ
teratogenicity
ˌtɛrətəˌdʒəˈnɪsɪtɪ
tonicity
təʊˈnɪsɪtɪ
tumorigenicity
ˌtjuːmərɪdʒəˈnɪsɪtɪ
unicity
juːˈnɪsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INHARMONICITY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE INHARMONICITY

authenticity
capacity
centricity
complicity
cytotoxicity
elasticity
electricity
felicity
historicity
hydroelectricity
hydrophobicity
modulus of elasticity
multiplicity
nephrotoxicity
periodicity
plasticity
publicity
simplicity
specificity
toxicity
viscoelasticity

Synonyms and antonyms of inharmonicity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «inharmonicity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INHARMONICITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

inharmonicity
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inarmonía
570 millions of speakers

English

inharmonicity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

inharmonicity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

inharmonicity
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

inharmonicity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inharmonicity
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

inharmonicity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inharmonicity
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakterimalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Inharmonizität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

インハーモニシティ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

inharmonicity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inharmonicity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

inharmonicity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inharmonicity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्थिरता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inharmonicity
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inarmonicità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inharmonicity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

inharmonicity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inharmonicity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

inharmonicity
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

inharmonicity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inharmonicity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inharmonicity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inharmonicity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INHARMONICITY»

The term «inharmonicity» is used very little and occupies the 181.222 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INHARMONICITY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INHARMONICITY»

Discover the use of inharmonicity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inharmonicity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Metallurgy of 17th- and 18th- Century Music Wire
Inharmonicity: Inharmonicity is defined as the departure from harmonic frequencies of the partial frequencies actually produced. Customarily inharmonicity is given as the interval between the inharmonic or measured frequency, f„, and the ...
Martha Goodway, Jay Scott Odell, 1987
2
The Physics of Musical Instruments
7. MEDIUM GRAND PIANO SQUARE OF MODE NUMBER FIGURE 12.37. Dependence of inharmonicity on the square of mode number for five strings in a grand piano. Curves are displaced vertically for clarity (Schuck and Young, 1943) . are ...
Neville Horner Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing, 1998
3
The Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: The Auditory Brain
David R. Moore, Paul Albert Fuchs, Adrian Rees, Alan Palmer, Christopher J. Plack. thereby making onset asynchrony and inharmonicity reliable cues indicating the presence of two or more sound sources in environment. neural encoding of ...
David R. Moore, Paul Albert Fuchs, Adrian Rees, 2010
4
Technology of the Guitar
... several times while the vibrometer recorded the response. The resulting inharmonicity data is shown in Fig. 2.12 along with a curve fit. The inharmonicity increases with the square of the frequency number to a very close approximation  ...
Richard Mark French, 2012
5
New Scientist
Stress affects tonal quality Inharmonicity, a measure of stiffness, rises in the treble of all pianos. In this piano, top D is 1 cent (0 01 semitone) sharp Impedance indicates the amplitude of a string's vibration. Like the stress and tension graphs,  ...
6
The Keyboard Stringing Guide
Most piano makers choose to sacrifice some of the ideal progression of tensions in the bass in order to limit inharmonicity to more acceptable levels at the cost of the balance of the instrument. Sadly, several makers – even major ones – tend to  ...
Jean Louchet, 2010
7
Latest edition of The keyboard stringing guide (hardcover)
Most piano makers choose to sacrifice some of the ideal progression of tensions in the bass in order to limit inharmonicity to more acceptable levels at the cost of the balance of the instrument. Sadly, several makers – even major ones – tend to  ...
Jean Louchet
8
CMMR 2004:
parameters, and especially when it comes to the inharmonicity, while the nonexperts used a different categorization strategy associating physical parameters of the model with a semantic interpretation integrating other criteria like the spectral ...
Uffe Wiil, 2005
9
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
This results in a slight raising in frequency of all the component modes with respect to the fundamental, an effect known as “inharmonicity,” and this effect is greater for the higher modes. Equation 4.2b assumes an ideal string; that is, a string ...
David Martin Howard, Jamie Angus, 2009
10
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in ...
In both cases, the degree of inharmonicity can be varied continuously according to the size of the constant, k. Further, a 'pseudo-fundamental' can be fitted to an incomplete series of detuned partials as long as the degree of inharmonicity is ...
Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Kristoffer Jensen, 2009

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INHARMONICITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inharmonicity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Space calls tune for longest piano
As well as being the world's largest piano, it also had the "lowest percentage of inharmonicity", according to an Australian piano maker, Mann ... «The Dominion Post, Sep 14»
2
This Gadget Turns Any Object into Electronic Music
So if, for example, you're playing on a table, you can change the time decay of that table to make it more resonant or the inharmonicity so to ... «Motherboard, Feb 14»
3
Cris Forster's 'Just' Musical Menagerie
The shorter and thicker a string [like those used commercially], the more inharmonicity.” The multiple bridges on both canons are infinitely ... «San Francisco Classical Voice, Jul 13»
4
Apple patent could bring polyphonic tuning to Logic Pro
The deviation from a perfect integer-interval can be tracked to find the inharmonicity, or distance from the nearest harmonic, in a polyphonic ... «Apple Insider, Nov 12»
5
Pianos For Motif
It has a very particular sound, very bright and full of inharmonicity in the bass due to the short lenght of the strings. This library was our first ... «Sonic State, Oct 12»
6
Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard
The inharmonicity of the juxtaposition wasn't lost on Fleet Foxes pack leader Robin Pecknold, who made a loving joke at DJ Shadow's ... «Nashville Scene, Jul 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Inharmonicity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/inharmonicity>. Apr 2024 ».
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