音色 — meaning in English

English meaning

• crest noun The highest point of something, such as a hill or wave.
• timbre noun The particular character of a sound that lets you tell it apart from another note at the same pitch and loudness.

Senses

音色 is used for these senses in English:

• crest (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
• timbre The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

crest — full definition

1. noun The highest point of something, such as a hill or wave.
2. noun A tuft of feathers or fur on an animal's head, or a decorative emblem, especially of a family or institution.
3. verb To reach the top of something, or to rise to a peak.

timbre — full definition

1. noun The particular character of a sound that lets you tell it apart from another note at the same pitch and loudness.
2. noun How high or low a sound seems to the ear, judged against its true pitch.
3. noun In heraldry, the decoration on top of the helmet in a coat of arms.

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