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单词 syntonic
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syntonicadj.1

/sɪnˈtɒnɪk/
Etymology: < Greek σύντονος (see syntonous adj.) + -ic suffix.
Music.
= syntonous adj. syntonic comma, the common comma (comma n. 3), the difference between a major and a minor tone, or between the major third of the Pythagorean and that of the modern diatonic scale.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > ancient Greek scales
chromatic1603
chromatical1603
diatonic1603
syntonic1786
Syntono-Lydian1786
syntonous1789
tetrachordal?1850
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > microtones > comma
comma1597
schism1653
schisma1753
syntonic comma1944
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Syntonic, the epithet by which Aristoxenus and other ancient musical writers distinguish a species of the diatonic genus, which was nearly the same with our natural diatonic.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 166/2 The Didymic (Didymos, Greek theorist, b. 63 B.C.) or syntonic comma which indicates the difference between E as the fourth tone of the circle of fifth..and the E of just intonation (fifth harmonic).
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) IV. 523/1 The comma of Didymus (commonly called a comma without qualification, and sometimes a syntonic comma).
1979 Early Music 7 239/2 The major third produced by tuning four successive perfect fifths..is wider than the pure interval..by a syntonic comma.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

syntonicadj.2

Etymology: In sense 1, < Greek σύν syn- prefix + τόνος tone n. + -ic suffix; in sense 2, < syntony n. 2 + -ic suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: synˈtonic.
1. Denoting a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving instruments are accurately ‘tuned’ or adjusted so that the latter responds only to vibrations of the frequency of those emitted by the former; also said of the instruments so ‘tuned’.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [adjective] > types of telegraphy
syntonic1892
Marconi1896
radio-telegraphic1902
radiographic1903
teletype1916
start-stop1918
1892 O. Lodge Mod. Views Electr. xvi. 339 The synchronizing of the vibration-period of two things..is well expressed by the adjective ‘syntonic’ which was suggested to me..by the late Dr. A. T. Myers. That which has been styled resonance I propose, therefore,..to call ‘syntony’.
1898 S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 46 457/1 Using..not merely circuits of wires, but syntonic circuits, which..are necessarily much more sensitive in their response one to the other.
1898 Echo 10 Jan. 2/4 These electrical resonances constitute ‘syntonic telegraphy.’
2. Psychiatry. Denoting the responsive, lively type of temperament which is liable to manic-depressive psychosis.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > affected with mania > specifically in psychiatry > manic-depressive > liable to manic depression
cycloid1925
cyclothyme1925
cyclothymic1925
syntonic1925
1925 A. A. Brill in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry LXXI. 592 Bleuler proposed for this reaction the name syntonic. Syntonic not only signifies ‘equally toned’ but also means to be ‘attuned’ and in ‘harmony’... If a person is neither exclusively schizoid, nor entirely syntonic, one can only say that he is preponderatingly schizoid or preponderatingly syntonic... Thus, if a person shows a manic attack, it means that the syntonic components predominate qualitatively and quantitatively to a morbid degree.
1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry ix. 190 The ‘syntonic’ or ‘cycloid’ personality, in which, if mental illness develops, it tends to be of the manic-depressive kind.
1933 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 30 Our results would indicate that the connection of cyclothyme or syntonic type with low perseveration..has no experimental support.
1948 Noyes & Kolb Mod. Clinical Psychiatry (ed. 3) vi. 98 Bleuler preferred the term ‘syntonic’ to Kretschmer's ‘cycloid’ to describe a personality tendency opposed in characteristics to the schizoid.
1969 H. J. Eysenck & S. B. Eysenck Personality Struct. & Measurement iv. 23 The large number of persons in the centre of the distribution he would call syntonic if they were on the cyclothymic side.

Derivatives

synˈtonically adv.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > mania > manic depression
syntonically1919
1919 in N.E.D. at Syntonic
1925 A. A. Brill in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry LXXXI. 592 The affectivity of the person reacting for the most part syntonically harmonizes with the people of his environment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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