harlow
- n United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)
harm
- n any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- n the occurrence of a change for the worse
- n the act of damaging something or someone
- v cause or do harm to
These pills won't harm your system
harmattan
- n a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter
harmfulness
- n destructiveness that causes harm or injury
- n the quality of being noxious
harmonic analysis
- n analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components
harmonic law
- n a law stating that the ratio of the square of the revolutionary period (in years) to the cube of the orbital axis (in astronomical units) is the same for all planets
harmonic mean
- n the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers
harmonic motion
- n a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions
harmonic progression
- n (mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression
harmonica
- n a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole