a. [ F. anharmonique, fr. Gr. 'an priv. + &unr_; harmonic. ] (Math.) Not harmonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The
anharmonic function or
anharmonic ratio of four points abcd on a straight line is the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to be regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unharmonious; discordant. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [ our nature ]. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'enarmoniko`s, 'enarmo`nios fitting, accordant; 'en in + "armoni`a harmony: cf. F. enharmonique.]

1. (Anc. Mus.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate. [1913 Webster]

2. (Mus.) (a) Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A♭ for G♯. (b) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys. [1913 Webster]

adv. In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. -eu + harmonic. ] (Mus.) Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. fr. L. harmonicus harmonic. See Harmonic, n. ] 1. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small wind musical instrument shaped like a flat bar with holes along the thin edges, held in the hand and producing notes from multiple vibrating reeds arranged inside along its length; it was formerly called the harmonicon. See harmonicon. [ PJC ]

/mhw>, a. [ L. harmonicus, Gr. "armoniko`s; cf. F. harmonique. See Harmony.] 1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. [1913 Webster]

Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. Pope. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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, the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two or more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. --
Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion. --
Harmonic series or
Harmonic progression. See under Progression. --
Spherical harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait. --
Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonia, and harmony. --
Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord. [1913 Webster]

adv. 1. In an harmonical manner; harmoniously. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) In harmonical progression. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. The doctrine or science of musical sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Mus.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. harmonieux. See Harmony. ] 1. Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.

-- Har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Har*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "armoni`a harmony + fwnh` sound.] (Mus.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. harmoniste. ] 1. One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect, founded in Würtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Harmony. ] A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. capable of being made harmonious or consistent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of harmonizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Harmonized p. pr. & vb. n. Harmonizing ] [ Cf. F. harmoniser. ] 1. To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who harmonizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "armoni`a harmony + meter: cf. F. harmonometre.] An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Harmonies [ F. harmonie, L. harmonia, Gr. "armoni`a joint, proportion, concord, fr. "armo`s a fitting or joining. See Article. ] 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) (a) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation. (b) The science which treats of their construction and progression. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ten thousand harps, that tuned
Angelic harmonies. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Anat.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close harmony,
Dispersed harmony, etc. See under Close, Dispersed, etc. --
Harmony of the spheres. See Music of the spheres, under Music.

Syn. -- Harmony, Melody. Harmony results from the concord of two or more strains or sounds which differ in pitch and quality. Melody denotes the pleasing alternation and variety of musical and measured sounds, as they succeed each other in a single verse or strain. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Not harmonic; inharmonious; discordant; dissonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + harmonious: cf. F. inharmonieux. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant; dissonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conflicting; jarring; not in harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being inharmonious; lack of harmony; discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inharmoniousness of a verse. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of harmony.

a. [ Philo- + Gr. "armoni`a harmony: cf. F. philharmonique.] Loving harmony or music. [1913 Webster]

n. One who loves harmony or music; also (Colloq.), short for Philharmonic Society, Philharmonic concert, Philharmonic assemblage, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to telharmonium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. th^le far + harmolium. ] An instrument for producing music ([ ), at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]