Tone colour
noun
1.
the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it Often shortened to tone See also timbre (sense 2)
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- Tone-control
noun 1. a manual control used to adjust the relative responses of an amplifier to high, low, and intermediate audio frequencies. tone control noun 1. a device in a radio, etc, by which the relative intensities of high and low frequencies may be varied
- Tone-deaf
adjective 1. unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them. adjective 1. unable to distinguish subtle differences in musical pitch
- Tone-dialing
noun 1. a system of calling telephone numbers wherein tones of differing pitch corresponding to the digits in the number called are electronically generated by manipulating pushbuttons (contrasted with pulse dialing). noun a mode of telephone dialing in which each digit has a different sound; also called touch-tone dialing
- Tonegawa susumu
Tonegawa Susumu To·ne·ga·wa Su·su·mu (tô-ně’gä-wä sōō-sōō’mōō), Born 1939. Japanese molecular biologist. He won a 1987 Nobel Prize for discovering how certain cells of the immune system can genetically rearrange themselves to produce diverse antibodies.
- Tone-language
noun 1. a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour. tone language noun 1. a language, such as Chinese or certain African languages, in which differences in tone may make differences in meaning