harmony (noun)

  • 51discord — noun 1) stress resulting from family discord Syn: strife, conflict, friction, hostility, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, bad feeling, ill feeling, bad blood, argument, quarreling, squabbling, bickering, wrangling, feuding, co …

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  • 52consort — noun /ˈkɒnsɔt / (say konsawt) 1. a husband or wife; a spouse, especially of a reigning monarch. 2. one vessel or ship accompanying another. 3. a group of instruments or voices in harmony. 4. Obsolete a companion or partner. 5. Obsolete company or …

  • 53macrobiotics — noun the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains) • Derivationally related forms: ↑macrobiotic • Hypernyms: ↑dietetics * * * I. ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷ˈäd.iks noun plural but singular or plural in… …

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  • 54free part — noun : an independent part of a canon or fugue added to fill out the harmony * * * free part, Music. 1. a part added to a canon or fugue to complete the harmony. 2. in a canon, any part not an antecedent or a consequent …

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  • 55polyharmony — “+ noun Etymology: poly + harmony : a harmonic structure that characteristically introduces two or more simultaneous musical harmonies or strata of harmony …

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  • 56blue note — noun a flattened third or seventh • Hypernyms: ↑note, ↑musical note, ↑tone • Part Holonyms: ↑blues * * * noun Etymology: blue (I) (of blues singing) …

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  • 57fee tail — noun a fee limited to a particular line of heirs; they are not free to sell it or give it away • Hypernyms: ↑fee * * * noun (plural fees tail) Etymology: Middle English fee taille, from Anglo French fé taillé, from Old French fé fee, fief +… …

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  • 58harmonic analysis — noun analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components • Syn: ↑Fourier analysis • Hypernyms: ↑analysis * * * noun : the approximate expression of a periodic function known only for some values of the independent variable… …

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  • 59harmonic mean — noun the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑mean, ↑mean value * * * noun 1. : the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of two… …

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  • 60harmonics — noun the study of musical sound • Hypernyms: ↑acoustics * * * härˈmäniks, hȧˈ , nēks noun plu but usually singular in construction : the doctrine or science of musical sounds * * * /hahr mon iks/, n. Music. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the science… …

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