harmonical : Idioms & Phrases

• (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes.

Webster 1913

• noun a periodic motion in which the displacement is either symmetrical about a point or is the sum of such motions
  

WordNet

• the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion.

Webster 1913

• . See under Proportion.

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• . See under Progression.

Webster 1913

• (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; called also harmonic, and harmony.

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• (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.

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• (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances.

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• a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait.

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