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[[File:Wave_sine.svg|right|thumb|A pure tone's pressure waveform versus time looks like this; its frequency determines the x axis scale; its amplitude determines the y axis scale; and its phase determines the x origin.]]
In [[psychoacoustics
By extension, in [[signal processing]] a single-frequency tone or pure tone is a purely sinusoidal [[signal]] (e.g., a voltage).
A pure tone has the property – unique among real-valued wave shapes – that its wave shape is unchanged by [[linear time-invariant system]]s; that is, only the phase and amplitude change between such a system's pure-tone input and its output.
Sine and cosine waves can be used as [[Basis function#Fourier basis|basic]] building blocks of more complex waves. As additional sine waves having different frequencies are [[Superposition principle|combined]], the waveform transforms from a sinusoidal shape into a more complex shape.
When considered as part of a whole [[spectrum (physical sciences)|spectrum]], a pure tone may also be called a ''spectral component''.
In clinical [[audiology]], pure tones are used for [[pure-tone audiometry]] to characterize hearing thresholds at different frequencies.
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== Relation to pitch and musical tones ==
Pure tones have been used by 19th century physicists like [[Georg Ohm]] and [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] to support theories asserting that the ear functions in a way equivalent to a [[Fourier analysis|Fourier frequency analysis]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=von Helmholtz |first1=Hermann L. F. |last2=Ellis |first2=Alexander J. |title=On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music |date=1875 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London, UK |url=https://archive.org/stream/onsensationston00helmgoog#page/n2/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ohm |first1=Georg |title=Ueber die Definition des Tones, nebst daran geknupfter Theorie der Sirene und ahnlicher tonbildenden Vorrichtungen |journal=Poggendor's Annalen der Physik und Chemie |date=1843 |volume=59 |pages=513–565}}</ref> In [[Ohm's acoustic law]], later further elaborated by Helmholtz, [[
Unlike [[
File:Middle C, or 262 hertz, on a virtual oscilloscope.png|Pure tone [[Oscilloscope|oscillogram]] of middle C (262
File:C3 131 Hz oscillogram.png|Pure tone for C3, an [[octave]] below middle C. The frequency is half that of [[C (musical note)|middle C]] (131
File:C5 523 Hz oscillogram.png|Pure tone oscillogram of C5, an [[octave]] above middle C. The frequency is twice that of middle C (523
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== References ==
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