"formant" meaning in French

See formant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fɔʁ.mɑ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-formant.wav Forms: formants [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans. Etymology templates: {{bor+|fr|de|Formant}} Borrowed from German Formant, {{der|fr|la|fōrmāns||shaping; forming; fashioning}} Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), {{doublet|fr|formans}} Doublet of formans Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} formant m (plural formants)
  1. (physics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Phonetics, Physics
    Sense id: en-formant-fr-noun-52wTBsa7 Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 28 9 14 24 4 10 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 6 15 28 2 11 7 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, natural-sciences, phonetics, phonology, physical-sciences, physics, sciences
  2. (linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology Synonyms: formans
    Sense id: en-formant-fr-noun-RCZ4uZUx Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 28 9 14 24 4 10 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 6 15 28 2 11 7 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 29 66 4 Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /fɔʁ.mɑ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-formant.wav
Head templates: {{head|fr|present participle}} formant
  1. present participle of former Tags: form-of, participle, present Form of: former
    Sense id: en-formant-fr-verb-pPoi02ox
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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