overtone

英 [ˈəʊvətəʊn]

美 [ˈoʊvərtoʊn]

n.  弦外之音; 言外之意; 暗示

复数：overtones　

医学

Collins.1 / BNC.11391 / COCA.13996

牛津词典

noun

• 弦外之音；言外之意；暗示
  an attitude or an emotion that is suggested and is not expressed in a direct way
  1. There were political overtones to the point he was making.
     他的论点有政治含义。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 弦外之音；言外之意；暗示
  If something hasovertones ofa particular thing or quality, it suggests that thing or quality but does not openly express it.
  1. The strike has taken on overtones of a civil rights campaign...
     罢工带上了民权运动的意味。
  2. It's a quite profound story, with powerful religious overtones.
     这个故事寓意深远，具有强烈的宗教色彩。

英英释义

noun

• a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
  Synonym:partialpartial tone
• (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality
  1. overtones of despair

双语例句

• This article mainly introduced harmony wave source rectification system equipment to electrical network pollution, its harms and electrical energy loss, summarized the working principle of the overtone wave filter and its application in rectifier equipment.
  本文主要介绍了谐波源整流系统设备对电网的污染、对设备的危害及电能损耗，简述了谐波滤除装置的工作原理及其在整流设备上的应用。
• The string is said to be vibrating in its first overtone mode.
  这根弦可说成是在它的第一泛音调式振动。
• There was an overtone of despair in what he said.
  他话里有一种绝望的口气。
• In the pedigree of Western classical thought history, friendship has a strong political overtone.
  在西方古典思想史的谱系中，友爱具有浓厚的政治色彩。
• Therefore, appraised induces in the overtone under nature, it's the important basis to judge whether can continue to play role in the modern electrical energy management.
  因此，评估感应在谐波的下性，是判断其在现代电能管理中是否能继续发挥作用的重要依据。
• In order to study the couplings and interactions between thickness-shear and spurious modes, we have calculated frequency spectra in the vicinity of fundamental thickness-shear and third-order overtone modes.
  为了研究厚度剪切模态和寄生模态的耦合情况，我们计算了基频和三阶泛音厚度剪切振动的频谱关系。
• On the Technology of the Electric Capacity Reactive Compensation and the Overtone Suppression
  无功电容补偿及谐波抑制技术研究
• To realize the temperature compensation for high-frequency overtone crystal oscillator, low-frequency ceramic oscillator is chosen and its output frequency is mixed with the output frequency of overtone crystal oscillator.
  该系统利用低频陶瓷振荡器的输出频率通过混频对高次泛音石英晶振进行温度补偿。
• It's a quite profound story, with powerful religious overtones.
  这个故事寓意深远，具有强烈的宗教色彩。
• His words were polite but there was a overtone of anger in his voice.
  他客气的话语中实际有愤怒之声。