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n. An ulterior, usually implicit meaning or quality; an implication or a hint. Often used in the plural: an overtone of anger barely masked; praise with overtones of envy.

n. See harmonic.

n. A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a harmonic

n. An implicit meaning, as opposed to a hidden meaning or undertone.

n. 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.

n. In music, a harmonic. See harmonic, n., 1.

n. (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality

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

"As such it gradually lost its pejorative overtone, so that both to Jews themselves and to sympathetic gentiles, it sometimes seemed preferable to 'Jew' as a racial term."

significance    signification    import    meaning    harmonic   

overtone current    electric overtone   

harmonic    tone   

undertone    undercurrent    connotation    twinge    tinge    intonation    implication    inflection    glint    aura