Klarinet Archive - Posting 000633.txt from 2000/08

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Correcting.... myself
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:57:01 -0400

<><> Lelia wrote:
[snip] in a shelf about three feet from where I was sitting and
actually more accessible than the massive dictionary!

After the discussion about the meaning of 'harmonic' (vs. simple
harmonic motion), I looked up this word in all of my dictionaries and
encyclopedias. Unhappily for me, all of them define 'harmonic' with
phrases such as "vibration frequency which is an integral multiple of"
and "expressible in terms of sine and cosine functions".
Not a single one of them so much as mentions simple harmonic
motion. (Why has the entire world overlooked what is so _obvious_ to
me? I'm think I'm going to go out in the back yard and eat worms...)
The final stab to my heart was when I looked in Harper's
Encyclopedia of Science. The opening line of their definition is:
"HARMONIC MOTION: a vibratory motion that repeats itself in equal time
intervals." (including the period punctuation after "equal time
intervals" --- as in "period, end of sentence, that's all there is to
it")

Oh well.......

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