Overtone vs Overtones - What's the difference?
overtone | overtones |
(physics, music) A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic
An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message. See undertone.
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, year=2012
, date=April 23
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election
, work=the Guardian
As nouns the difference between overtone and overtones
is that overtone is a tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic while overtones is plural of lang=en.overtone
English
(wikipedia overtone)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
