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harmonical

harmonical is the alternative form of harmonic.

Meaning of harmonic

Adjective

harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)

  1. Pertaining to harmony.
  2. Pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious.
    • harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC
  3. Used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance.
    • The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.
  4. Recurring periodically.
  5. Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
  6. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
    • A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages

See all 10 meanings of harmonic

Noun

harmonical (plural harmonicals)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of harmonic mean.
    Synonyms:
    harmonic mean

Synonyms of harmonical

Forms of harmonical

Adjective
comparativemore harmonical
superlativemost harmonical
Noun
pluralharmonicals

Words formed from harmonical

Questions about harmonical

What does harmonical mean?
Harmonical means synonym of harmonic mean.
What is harmonical the alternative form of?
Harmonical is the alternative form of harmonic.
What part of speech is harmonical?
Harmonical is a noun.
What is the plural of harmonical?
The plural of harmonical is harmonicals.

Words near harmonical in the dictionary

  1. harmonica
  2. harmonica bug
  3. harmonica bugs
  4. harmonicaist
  5. harmonicaists
  6. harmonical
  7. harmonically
  8. harmonically bound
  9. harmonicalness
  10. harmonicals
  11. harmonicas

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