| 单词 | formant |
| 释义 | formant /fawr"meuhnt/, n. 1. Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre. 2. Acoustic Phonet. 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. [1900-05; < L formant- (s. of formans), prp. of formare to FORM; see -ANT] |
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