[time-nuts] Re: Is there a term for the reverse/inverse of harmonic?

Hal Murray halmurray at sonic.net
Mon Apr 28 10:36:51 UTC 2025


Thanks for all the replies.


Tom asked me to take care of the backlog -- that is let anything great 
through but don't flood our mailboxes.

I just dropped a dozen or so.  (and fatfingered one that went through, 
apologies)

Here is a summary of the ones I dropped
  There were 10 mentions of subharmonic.
  There were 3 mentions of fundamental
  There was one suggestion of undertone
    and another of fractional harmonic or fractional frequency


On Wikipedia, subharmonic redirects to "Undertone series" which begins "In 
music...".

Meriam-Webster has an entry for subharmonic.
   : a component of a periodic wave having a frequency that is an integral 
submultiple of the fundamental frequency


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