a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color |
the mass of air surrounding the Earth | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) |
the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body | (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages |
a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
the weather or climate at some place | a steady sound without overtones |
a particular environment or surrounding influence | a musical interval of two semitones |
| the quality of a person's voice |
| a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound |
| the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people |
| the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli |