English dictionary

overtone

/'/oU/v/@/r,t/oU/n/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality

noun.communication

Examples
Overtones of despair.

Source: WordNet 3.0
a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

noun.cognition

Synonyms partial partial tone

Source: WordNet 3.0
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See <u>Harmonic</u>, and <u>Tone</u>.

noun

Source: webster1913