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▪ I. syntonic, a.1 Mus.|sɪnˈtɒnɪk|
[f. Gr. σύντονος (see syntonous) + -ic.]
= syntonous.
syntonic comma, the common comma (comma 3), the difference between a major and a minor tone, or between the major third of the Pythagorean and that of the modern diatonic scale.
1801Busby Dict. Mus., Syntonic, the epithet by which Aristoxenus and other ancient musical writers distinguish a species of the diatonic genus, which was nearly the same with our natural diatonic. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. (1946) 166/2 The Didymic (Didymos, Greek theorist, b. 63 B.C.) or syntonic comma which indicates the difference between E as the fourth tone of the circle of fifths..and the E of just intonation. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) IV. 523/1 The comma of Didymus (commonly called a comma without qualification, and sometimes a syntonic comma). 1979Early Music Apr. 239/2 The major third produced by tuning four successive perfect fifths..is wider than the pure interval..by a syntonic comma.
▪ II. synˈtonic, a.2
[In sense 1, f. Gr. σύν syn-1 + τόνος tone + -ic; in sense 2, f. syntony 2 + -ic.]
1. Electr. Denoting a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving instruments are accurately ‘tuned’ or adjusted so that the latter responds only to vibrations of the frequency of those emitted by the former; also said of the instruments so ‘tuned’.
1892Lodge Mod. Views Electr. xvi. 339 The synchronizing of the vibration-period of two things..is well expressed by the adjective ‘syntonic’ which was suggested to me..by the late Dr. A. T. Myers. That which has been styled resonance I propose, therefore,..to call ‘syntony’. 1898S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts XLVI. 457/1 Using..not merely circuits of wires, but syntonic circuits, which..are necessarily much more sensitive in their response one to the other. 1898Echo 10 Jan. 2/4 These electrical resonances constitute ‘syntonic telegraphy.’
2. Psychiatry. Denoting the responsive, lively type of temperament which is liable to manic-depressive psychosis.
1925A. A. Brill in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry LXXI. 592 Bleuler proposed for this reaction the name syntonic. Syntonic not only signifies ‘equally toned’ but also means to be ‘attuned’ and in ‘harmony’... If a person is neither exclusively schizoid, nor entirely syntonic, one can only say that he is preponderatingly schizoid or preponderatingly syntonic... Thus, if a person shows a manic attack, it means that the syntonic components predominate qualitatively and quantitatively to a morbid degree. 1927[see cycloid n. 3]. 1933Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 30 Our results would indicate that the connection of cyclothyme or syntonic type with low perseveration..has no experimental support. 1948Noyes & Kolb Mod. Clinical Psychiatry (ed. 3) vi. 98 Bleuler preferred the term ‘syntonic’ to Kretschmer's ‘cycloid’ to describe a personality tendency opposed in characteristics to the schizoid. 1969H. J. & S. B. G. Eysenck Personality Structure & Measurement iv. 23 The large number of persons in the centre of the distribution he would call syntonic if they were on the cyclothymic side.
Hence synˈtonically adv.
a1919N.E.D. ‘In recent Dicts.’ 1925A. A. Brill in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry LXXXI. 592 The affectivity of the person reacting for the most part syntonically harmonizes with the people of his environment. |