Noun: harmonic
| Singular | harmonic |
| Plural | harmonics |
Sample Sentences
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Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all. [1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140:]
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The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […] [1988, Amateur Radio, volume 44, numbers 1-6, page 38:]
Nouns inflected like harmonic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονικός (harmonikós), from ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”). By surface analysis, harmony + -ic. Doublet of armónico. See: Latin Nouns '
harmonicus'.