Overtone
Pronunciation : O"ver*tone`
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [A translation of G. oberton. See Over,Tone.] (Mus.)
Definition : Defn: One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913