FORMANT
- the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre
- 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
- a characteristic component of the quality of a speech sound [n FORMANTS]
- a component of a speech sound [n -S]