harmonical

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harmonical (comparative more harmonical, superlative most harmonical)

  1. Alternative form of harmonic
    • 2001 May 18, Minseok Kim et al., “Controlling Chemical Turbulence by Global Delayed Feedback: Pattern Formation in Catalytic CO Oxidation on Pt(110)”, in Science[1], volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1357–1360:
      The CGLE is a general model that describes the behavior of reaction-diffusion systems near onset of self-oscillations, while they remain approximately harmonical.
    • 1903, J. E. Acland, Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I.[2]:
      There follows an "harmonical parallel between the types of the Old Testament and the Four Evangelists' relations of our Lord and Saviour;" also a "discourse of the estate of the Jews," by Dr. Jackson, "The destruction of Jerusalem," and long extracts from a work entitled "Moses unveiled," besides other matter.
    • 1859, Joseph Maclise, Surgical Anatomy[3]:
      The action of the auricles is synchronous; that of the ventricles is the same; that of the auricles and ventricles is consentaneous; and that of the whole heart is rhythmical, or harmonious--the diastole of the auricles occurring in harmonical time with the systole of the ventricles, and vice versa.

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harmonical (plural harmonicals)

  1. (mathematics, archaic) Synonym of harmonic mean

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