partial tone
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partial tone — n. Acoustics Music any of the pure, or harmonic, tones forming a complex tone; harmonic … English World dictionary
partial tone — noun a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency • Syn: ↑overtone, ↑partial • Hypernyms: ↑harmonic * * * noun : partial 1 * * * Acoustics, Music. one of the pure tones forming a part of a complex tone. Also called … Useful english dictionary
partial — [pär′shəl] adj. [ME parcial < MFr partial < LL partialis < L pars,PART1] 1. favoring one person, faction, etc. more than another; biased; prejudiced 2. of, being, or affecting only a part; not complete or total n. 1. PARTIAL TONE … English World dictionary
tone — Synonyms and related words: French pitch, Munsell chroma, Zeitgeist, accent, accidental, achromatism, action, actions, activity, acts, adaptability, address, affect, affectation, air, algorithm, anagnorisis, angle, apply paint, approach,… … Moby Thesaurus
partial — Synonyms and related words: AF, adulterated, antiblack, arrested, audio frequency, biased, blemished, callow, chauvinistic, colored, damaged, defective, deficient, denominational, discriminatory, doctrinaire, dogmatic, embryonic, erroneous,… … Moby Thesaurus
partial — partially, adv. partialness, n. /pahr sheuhl/, adj. 1. being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt. 2. biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in … Universalium
partial — par tial (p[aum]r shal), a. [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See {Part}, n.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Partial differential coefficients — partial par tial (p[aum]r shal), a. [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See {Part}, n.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Partial differentials — partial par tial (p[aum]r shal), a. [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See {Part}, n.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Partial differentiation — partial par tial (p[aum]r shal), a. [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See {Part}, n.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
