English Dictionary
◊ POLYPHONIC
polyphonic
adj 1: (linguistics) having two or more phonetic values;
"polyphonic letters such as `a'"
2: (music) "polyphonic traditions of the baroque" [syn: {polyphonous}]
3: (music) having two or more independent but harmonically
related melodic parts sounding together [syn: {contrapuntal}]
[ant: {monophonic}]