Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not harmonic; in geometry, a term applied by Chasles to an important kind of ratio introduced into geometry by Möbius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) Not harmonic.
- adjective the quantity (ac/ad):(bc/bd), where the segments are to be regarded as plus or minus, according to the order of the letters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not harmonic; perturbed harmonic.
Etymologies
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an- + harmonic
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Examples
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Some of his works had a lasting effect on the whole development of statistical physics; I mean not only his study of the deduction of a "master equation" for anharmonic systems, but also his fundamental contribution on phase transitions, which was to lead to the branch of statistical mechanics that deals with so-called
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This first study by van Hove was restricted to weakly coupled anharmonic systems.
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Use the pendulum to find the value of g on planet X. Notice the anharmonic behavior at large amplitude.
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