Fundamental vs. Overtone

Fundamentalnoun

(usually plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part

Fundamentalnoun

(physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.

Fundamentalnoun

(music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.

Fundamentaladjective

Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.

Fundamentaladjective

Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.

Fundamentaladjective

Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.

Fundamentalnoun

A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

Fundamentalnoun

the lowest tone of a harmonic series

Fundamentaladjective

serving as an essential component;

Fundamentaladjective

being or involving basic facts or principles;

Fundamentaladjective

far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something;

Overtonenoun

A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series

Overtonenoun

An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message. See undertone.

Overtonenoun

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

Overtonenoun

(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality;

Overtonenoun

a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency

Overtone

An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound. In other words, overtones are higher pitches resulting from the lowest note or fundamental.