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polytonic, a.|pɒlɪˈtɒnɪk|
[f. poly- + tonic a. and n.]
Using or having several (musical or vocal) tones.
1948D. Diringer Alphabet i. vi. 99 So characteristic are the tones in the Tibeto-Chinese languages, that some scholars have suggested to term them ‘polytonic’. 1955Sci. News Let. 13 Aug. 102/1 A new signaling system for telephone dialing..has been developed... The device, called a polytonic coder, sends out digits just about as fast as they can theoretically be packed into a line. Ibid. 102/2 The tests showed the polytonic signal could be used on all except a few telephone connections in this country. 1961J. Blades in A. Baines Mus. Instruments 342 The ingenious steel drums recently introduced in Trinidad are polytonic gongs... Each sector is tuned to a different note. |