a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
Examples of 'missing fundamental' in a sentence
missing fundamental
The tone complex stimuli only diverged on the value of the missing fundamental component.
Philip J Monahan, Kevin de Souza, William J Idsardi 2008, 'Neuromagnetic evidence for early auditory restoration of fundamental pitch.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2483422?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)