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shantytown (oh)



a very poor area in or near a town where people live in small houses made from thin sheets of wood, tin etc

harmonic (iou)



harmonic adjective & noun. L16.
[Latin harmonicus from Greek harmonikos (in neut. pl. harmonika used as noun = theory of Music), from harmonia HARMONY: see -IC.]
A. adjective.
Relating to Music, musical; (of ancient Music) relating to melody as distinguished from rhythm. obsolete in gen. sense. L16.
a. Sounding in harmony, harmonious. M17.
b. Relating to or marked by harmony, agreement, or concord. M18.
Music. Relating to harmony; belonging to the combination of musical notes in chords. M17.
Math.
a. Designating or involving the relation of quantities whose reciprocals are in arithmetical progression, as in the series 1 + 1 / 2 + 1 / 3 + 1 / 4 +...E18.
b. Expressible in the form of sine and cosine functions. M19.
Physics & Music. Designating or relating to tones produced by the vibration of the aliquot parts of strings etc. M19.
Special collocations: harmonic analysis: of a periodic function into simple trigonometrical components. harmonic function: that satisfies any of a class of differential equations including that of simple harmonic motion. harmonic minor a scale with the minor sixth and major seventh both ascending and descending. harmonic motion symmetrical oscillatory motion under a retarding force proportional to the displacement from the equilibrium position (more fully simple harmonic motion), like the projection of uniform motion in a circle on to a diameter; periodic motion having simple harmonic components. harmonic progression (the relation between) a series of quantities whose reciprocals are in arithmetical progression. harmonic series (a) Math. a series of quantities in harmonic progression; (b) Acoustics & Music the scale formed by the harmonics of a fundamental note.
b. noun.
In pl. & (occas.) sing. Musical sounds or intervals constituting a theory or system; acoustics as relating to Music. obsolete exc. Hist. E18.
Physics & Music. A secondary tone produced by the vibration of an aliquot part of a string, reed, etc., usu. accompanying the fundamental tone produced by a vibrating body as a whole. L18.
b. Physics. A component or subsidiary (electromagnetic) wave or oscillation whose frequency is a multiple of the fundamental. L19.
Math. A harmonic function. M19.