Usually means: Resonant frequencies of the vocal tract.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. formant: Merriam-Webster
  2. formant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. formant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. formant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Formant, formant: Wordnik
  6. formant: Wiktionary
  7. formant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. formant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. formant: Dictionary.com
  10. Formant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. formant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. formant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Formant: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formant: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (formant)

noun:  (physics, phonetics) A 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.
noun:  (linguistic morphology) Synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).

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