Definition of "homophonic" [ho•mo•phon•ic]

• Having the same sound. (adjective)
• Having or characterized by a single melodic line with accompaniment. (adjective)

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• "Naming "a sea turtle" to top management alone is not enough, says Ng, referring to the term a homophonic pun for English-speaking, Western-trained Chinese who have returned home."
• "As a composer he must be considered as the first of what we might call the homophonic writers, -- that is to say, he was the father of the modern free style in which the normal form of the musical idea is that of a melody and an accompaniment, as distinguished from the style of"
• "But when that approach failed, they figured that the code was what cryptographers call a homophonic cipher - a substitution code that does not have a straightforward correspondence between the original and encoded information."