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Overtone

British pronunciation/ˈə‍ʊvətˌə‍ʊn/
American pronunciation/ˈoʊvɝˌtoʊn/
Overtone
[NOUN]
1

(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality

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2

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

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Examples
1. That perspective has overtones in the 15th century history of Renaissance Florence.
2. What's an overtone?
3. This also carried racist overtones.
4. Eva played this overtone series.
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