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What does homophonic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.
  2. (music) Having a single, accompanied, melodic line; not polyphonic.
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Answer: a family of characters is made up of characters which are homophonic but mean different things.
Many of the choruses in the oratorio feature a similar blending of musical textures, with homophonic and polyphonic passages appearing in turn.
I also encourage students to focus on how the melody and harmony interrelate, particularly in homophonic textures.
First, there are languages where the apparent complementizer — 'that', in English — is not homophonic with a demonstrative.
The fugato is interrupted at its height by a homophonic statement by the entire ensemble, first in a single line and then in a huge two-voice version.
In Experiment 1, the preview of target characters consisted of targets or of graphemically similar, homophonic, or dissimilar characters.

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