Sample Sentences for
polyphonic
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polyphonic as in:  polyphonic music

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It's a recording of a polyphonic song written during the late Middle Ages.
polyphonic = having two or more independent but harmonically related melodies
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    He was waltzing while the rest of us hopped a jig; he was deaf to the raucous music of our lives, and we were deaf to the serene polyphony of his.  (source)
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    The Polyphonic Spree†  (source)
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    He was intense and a little feverish and had his indigenous common cold and when he talked it was on a polyphonic plane, steep and desperate, and when he fucked it was strong and aloof—not aloof but rootless, a kind of any-fuck in the sense that there was nothing outside the act, they lived for the strokes, for the nasal drone, and finally he slept, and then she did, and they barely made their flights in the morning.†  (source)
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polyphonic as in:  polyphonic letter

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Is there a written language without polyphonic letters in its alphabet?
polyphonic = having two or more sounds (phonetic values) such as the letter "a" in cat and date
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If they had disliked heroic comedy the Limeans would not have hesitated to remain at home; and if they had been deaf to polyphony nothing would have prevented their going to an earlier service.†  (source)
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