n. 泛音, 暗示, 弦外之音, 折光的色彩

[医] 陪音, 泛音

Overtone \O"ver*tone`\, n. [A translation of G. oberton. See
{Over}, {Tone}.] (Mus.)
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and at a higher
frequency than a fundamental tone as it dies away, produced
by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of
air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural
harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth,
etc.; an aliquot or ``partial'' tone; a harmonic. See
{Harmonic}, and {Tone}. --Tyndall.