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har·mo·ny 
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Audio Help [hahr-muh-nee] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -nies.
| 1. | agreement; accord; harmonious relations. |
| 2. | a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity. |
| 3. | Music.
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| 4. | an arrangement of the contents of the Gospels, either of all four or of the first three, designed to show their parallelism, mutual relations, and differences. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME armonye < MF < L harmonia < Gk harmonía joint, framework, agreement, harmony, akin to hárma chariot, harmós joint, ararískein to join together]
] —Synonyms 1. concord, unity, peace, amity, friendship. 2. consonance, conformity, correspondence, consistency. See symmetry. 3. Harmony, melody in music suggest a combination of sounds from voices or musical instruments. Harmony is the blending of simultaneous sounds of different pitch or quality, making chords: harmony in part singing; harmony between violins and horns. Melody is the rhythmical combination of successive sounds of various pitch, making up the tune or air: a tuneful melody to accompany cheerful words.
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Harmony
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| har·mo·ny
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n. pl. har·mo·nies
[Middle English armonie, from Old French, from Latin harmonia, from Greek harmoniā, articulation, agreement, harmony, from harmos, joint; see ar- in Indo-European roots.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
harmony
c.1384, from O.Fr. armonie, from L. harmonia, from Gk. harmonia "agreement, concord of sounds," lit. "means of joining," related to harmos "joint, shoulder," from PIE *ar-ti-, from *ar- "to fit together." Musical sense is oldest in Eng.; that of "agreement of feeling, concord" is from 1588.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| harmony | |
noun | |
| 1. | compatibility in opinion and action |
| 2. | the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords |
| 3. | a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole |
| 4. | agreement of opinions |
| 5. | an agreeable sound property [ant: dissonance] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
harmony1 [ˈhaːməni] noun — plural ˈharmonies
(of musical sounds, colours etc) (the state of forming) a pleasing combination
Example: The singers sang in harmony.
harmony2 [ˈhaːməni] nounExample: The singers sang in harmony.
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the agreement of people's feelings, opinions etc
Example: Few married couples live in perfect harmony.
See also: harmonize, harmonise, harmonic, harmoniousExample: Few married couples live in perfect harmony.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
harmony
The sounding of two or more musical notes at the same time in a way that is pleasant or desired. Harmony, melody, and rhythm are elements of music.
[Chapter:] Fine Arts
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Population (1990): 3694 (1534 housing units)
Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
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Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 55939
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Population (1990): 431 (195 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28634
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Population (1990): 1054 (432 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16037
Harmony, WV Zip code(s): 25246
Harmony, IN (town, FIPS 31486) Location: 39.53402 N, 87.07342 W
Population (1990): 645 (269 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Lake Harmony, PA Zip code(s): 18624
New Harmony, IN (town, FIPS 52974) Location: 38.12853 N, 87.93248 W
Population (1990): 846 (387 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 47631
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Population (1990): 101 (59 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Harmony
Har*mon"ic\, Harmonical \Har*mon"ic*al\, a. [L. harmonicus, Gr. ?; cf. F. harmonique. See Harmony.]1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. --Pope. 2. (Mus.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body. 3. (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like. Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances. Harmonic motion, the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. {Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion. Harmonic series or progression. See under Progression. Spherical harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. --Thomson & Tait. Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonic, and harmony. Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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