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.

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  • adjective Not harmonic; perturbed harmonic.

Etymologies

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an- +‎ harmonic

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Examples

  • 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

    Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

  • This first study by van Hove was restricted to weakly coupled anharmonic systems.

    Ilya Prigogine - Autobiography 1977

  • Use the pendulum to find the value of g on planet X. Notice the anharmonic behavior at large amplitude.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

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