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Is this image on harmonics and overtones wrong?

I saw this image and believed this to be the definition of what the relationship between harmonics and overtones to be in strings, closed pipes and open pipes.

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That the $n^{th}$ harmonic = $n-1^{th}$ overtone.

But from further research, it seems this is more correct: the $n^{th}$ overtone is the nth possible sound that is produced.

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Is the first image wrong?