Definitions for formants
formants
for·mant
Spelling: [fawr-muh nt]
IPA: /ˈfɔr mənt/
Formants is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 391 anagrams from letters in formants (afmnorst).
Definitions for formants
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 formants
1900-05; Latin formant- (stem of formāns), present participle of formāre to form; see -ant
Examples for formants
"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.