Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Harmonic \Har*mon"ic\, Harmonical \Har*mon"ic*al\, a. [L.
harmonicus, Gr. ?; cf. F. harmonique. See {Harmony}.]
1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. --Pope.
2. (Mus.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to
melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds
or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent
single tone of any string or sonorous body.
3. (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some
resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of
certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines.
motions, and the like.
{Harmonic interval} (Mus.), the distance between two notes of
a chord, or two consonant notes.
{Harmonical mean} (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of
numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical
consonances.
{Harmonic motion},
Harmonic \Har*mon"ic\, n. (Mus.)
A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a
multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See
{Harmonics}.
Source : WordNet®
harmonic
adj 1: of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and
rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"-
Ralph Hill [ant: {nonharmonic}]
2: of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the
composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the
resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the
harmonic response"
3: relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations
in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration" [syn: {sympathetic}]
4: involving or characterized by harmony [syn: {consonant}, {harmonical},
{harmonized}, {harmonised}, {in harmony}]
harmonic
n : a tone that is a component of a complex sound