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Adjective: polyphonic  ,pó-lee'fó-nik
  1. (linguistics) having two or more phonetic values
    "polyphonic letters such as 'a'"
     
  2. (music) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony
    "polyphonic traditions of the baroque";
    - polyphonous
     
  3. (music) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together
    - contrapuntal

Antonym: monophonic

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