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Inharmonicity vs Anharmonicity - What's the difference?

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Anharmonicity is a related term of inharmonicity.



As nouns the difference between inharmonicity and anharmonicity

is that inharmonicity is the quality or state of being not or less then totally harmonious while anharmonicity is of or pertaining to the deviation of a system from harmonicity (being a harmonic oscillator.

inharmonicity

English

Noun

(inharmonicities)
  • (literally) The quality or state of being not or less then totally harmonious
  • (music) The degree to which the frequencies of overtones (known as partial tones or harmonics) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency.

    • Antonyms

    * harmony * harmonicity

    Related terms

    * anharmonicity * disharmony

    anharmonicity

    English

    Noun

    (anharmonicities)
  • (mechanics) Of or pertaining to the deviation of a system from harmonicity (being a harmonic oscillator)

    • Related terms

    * anharmonic * harmonicity * inharmonicity

    See also

    * (wikipedia "anharmonicity")