Summation Tone

summation tone

[sə′mā·shən ‚tōn]

(acoustics)

Combination tone, heard under certain circumstances, whose pitch corresponds to a frequency equal to the sum of the frequencies of the two components.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Summation Tone

 

a combination tone of frequency to, ω₁ + ω₂ that arises in a nonlinear acoustic system under the action of two sound oscillations having the frequencies to, ω₁ and ω₂ (see alsoCOMBINATION OSCILLATIONS).

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