different between harmonica vs harmonic

English

Etymology

German Harmonika; compare harmonic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??.?m?.n?.k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.?m?.n?.k?/

Noun

harmonica (plural harmonicas)

1. a musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note
2. a musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
3. a toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

Synonyms

• French harp
• gob iron
• Mississippi sax
• mouth harp
• mouth organ
• tin sandwich

Derived terms

• glass harmonica
• harmonicaist (dated)
• harmonicist

Translations

Anagrams

• charmonia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English harmonica (“musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses”), coined by Benjamin Franklin as armonica based on Italian armonica, from Latin harmonica, feminine of harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “harmony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r?mo?.ni.ka?/
• Hyphenation: har?mo?ni?ca

Noun

harmonica f (plural harmonica's)

1. harmonica, mouth harp (portable wind instrument)

   Synonym: mondharmonica

2. harmonica, glass harmonica (musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses)

   Synonym: glasharmonica

Derived terms

• glasharmonica
• handharmonica
• harmonicabus
• knopharmonica
• mondharmonica
• trekharmonica

French

Etymology

German Harmonika; compare harmonique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.m?.ni.ka/

Noun

harmonica m (plural harmonicas)

1. harmonica

References

• “harmonica” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• harmonick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (harmonikós), from ??????? (harmonía, “harmony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??(?)?m?n?k/
• Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)

1. pertaining to harmony
2. pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious
3. (mathematics) used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance

4. recurring periodically
5. (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
6. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
   • 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages

     A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

harmonic (plural harmonics)

1. (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
2. (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
3. (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
4. (CB radio slang) One's child.
   • 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal (volume 23, issues 7-12, page 140)

     Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.

   • 1988, Amateur Radio (volume 44, issues 1-6, page 38)

     The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]

Translations

Anagrams

• choirman, chromian, omniarch, rahmonic