formant
/fawr-muhnt/US // ˈfɔr mənt //UK // (ˈfɔːmənt) //
形声,阵声,形成音,形成音声
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre.
- : Acoustic Phonetics. 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.
Examples
L'attaque fut formée en colonnes par échelons de régiment, Bachelu formant les échelons les plus avancés.
"See the pretty Formant looking quite common next to her," said the first.
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