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Definitions for Formant
[1] Music . the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre.
[2] Acoustic Phonetics . one of the regions of concentration of energy, prominent on a sound spectrogram, that collectively constitute the frequency spectrum of a speech sound. The relative positioning of the first and second formants, whether periodic or aperiodic, as of the o of hope at approximately 500 and 900 cycles per second, is usually sufficient to distinguish a sound from all others.
[3] acoustics phonetics any of several frequency ranges within which the partials of a sound, esp a vowel sound, are at their strongest, thus imparting to the sound its own special quality, tone colour, or timbre
Words nearby Formant
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Origin of Formant
1900–05; < Latin formant- (stem of formāns ), present participle of formāre to form; see -ant