Dictionary  har•mon•icPronunciation: (här-mon'ik), [key] —adj. 1. pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm. 2. marked by harmony; in harmony; concordant; consonant. 3. Physics.of, pertaining to, or noting a series of oscillations in which each oscillation has a frequency that is an integral multiple of the same basic frequency. 4. Math. a. (of a set of values) related in a manner analogous to the frequencies of tones that are consonant. b. capable of being represented by sine and cosine functions. c. (of a function) satisfying the Laplace equation. —n. 1. Music.overtone (def. 1). 2. Physics.a single oscillation whose frequency is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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