ALL meanings of formant
for·mant
F f - noun formant Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre. 1
- noun formant 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. 1
- noun formant Any of several prominent bands of frequency that determine the phonetic quality of a vowel. 1
- noun formant (physics) A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants. 0
- noun formant (linguistics) a morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem. 0
- noun formant any of several frequency ranges within which the partials of a sound, esp a vowel sound, are at their strongest, thus imparting to the sound its own special quality, tone colour, or timbre 0
- noun formant any one of the group of frequencies characterizing a given vowel sound 0