Definitions for formant
formant
for·mant
Spelling: [fawr-muh nt]
IPA: /ˈfɔr mənt/
Formant is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 204 anagrams from letters in formant (afmnort).
Definitions for formant
noun
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Music. the range and number of partials present in a tone of a specific instrument, representing its timbre.
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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.
Origin of formant
1900-05; Latin formant- (stem of formāns), present participle of formāre to form; see -ant
Examples for formant
"See the pretty formant looking quite common next to her," said the first.
L'attaque fut formée en colonnes par échelons de régiment, Bachelu formant les échelons les plus avancés.