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spurious
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adjective
(= specious)
plausible but false
a specious claim
spurious inferences
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adjective
intended to deceive
a spurious work of art
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adjective
born out of wedlock
the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring
— E.A.Freeman
harmonic
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adjective
of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm
subtleties of harmonic change and tonality
— Ralph Hill
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adjective
of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds
the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response
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adjective
of or relating to harmonics
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adjective
(= sympathetic)
relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body
sympathetic vibration
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noun
any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
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noun
a tone that is a component of a complex sound
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adjective
(= consonant)
involving or characterized by harmony
distortion
Noun
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A distortion is a change to the original (or normal) shape (or characteristic) of something. It can apply to objects, images, sounds, or information.
He told her the story, but it was a distortion of the truth.