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harmony
1. Working or living together smoothly.
2. Agreement in feelings or opinions; accord; such as, to live in harmony.
3. A pleasing combination of elements in a whole: color harmony; the order and harmony of the universe.
4. In music, the study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords or the simultaneous combinations of notes in a chord.
5. A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear.
6. Etymology: from about 1380, armonye, "concord of sounds, music, melody; borrowed from Old French armonie, harmonie, from Latin harmonia, from Greek harmonia, "joining, joint, agreement, concord of sounds.

Related to harmos, "joint". It is also etymologically connected to "arm" from Greek arthron. "a joint" and Latin armus, "shoulder".

—Based on information from Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology
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music of the spheres, harmony of the spheres
The natural harmonic tones supposedly produced by the movement of the celestial spheres or the bodies fixed in them.
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