different between syntony vs harmony

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Noun

syntony (usually uncountable, plural syntonies)

1. (electronics) A condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency.
   • 1908, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 23,

     In practice, perfectly accurate syntony is not necessary, but some variation in a wave length may be permitted and good results at the receiver will still be attained.

2. A syntonic state.
   • 1969, Carlo Luigi Golino (editor), Italian Quarterly, Volume 13, page 27,

     Betti has dealt with the XXIX Canto of Paradiso in a commentary marked by an extreme richness of spiritual syntonies.

   • 1992, Michele Bezoari, Antonio Ferro, From a play between "parts" to transformations in the couple: psychoanalysis in a bipersonal field, Luciana Nissim Momigliano, Andreina Robutti, Shared Experience: The Psychoanalytic Dialogue, page 54,

     Rather, it seems to us that the analyst's priority should be to foster the progressive interaction of these areas into the couple's communicative work, so as to arrive, through successive transformations of what we have called functional aggregates, at a shared vision and an experience of emotional syntony relative to what occurs in the field.

   • 2007 January 25, London Review of Books, p12,

     Official demographers hasten to point out that high mortality rates were already a feature of the Brezhnev period, while low fertility rates are after all a sign of social advance, in syntony with Western Europe.

English

Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk

     America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

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Further reading

• harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.