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Harmonic vs Harmonical - What's the difference?

harmonic | harmonical |

As adjectives the difference between harmonic and harmonical

is that harmonic is pertaining to harmony while harmonical is alternative form of harmonic.

As a noun harmonic

is a component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.

harmonic

English

Alternative forms

* harmonick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • pertaining to harmony
  • pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious
  • * (rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
    • harmonic twang of leather, horn, and brass.
  • (mathematics) (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.

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * harmonic addition theorem * harmonic analysis * harmonic brick * harmonic conjugate * harmonic conjugate function * harmonic coordinates * harmonic decomposition * harmonic divisor number * harmonic equation * harmonic expansion * harmonic form * harmonic function * harmonic-geometric mean * harmonic homology * harmonic logarithm * harmonic map * harmonic mean * harmonic mean index * harmonic number * harmonic parameter * harmonic progression * harmonic quadrilateral * harmonic range * harmonic ratio * harmonic segment * harmonic series * harmonic series of primes * harmonic system of points

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) a component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency

    • Anagrams

    *

    harmonical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 18, Minseok Kim et al., Controlling Chemical Turbulence by Global Delayed Feedback: Pattern Formation in Catalytic CO Oxidation on Pt(110), Science citation
    • , passage=The CGLE is a general model that describes the behavior of reaction-diffusion systems near onset of self-oscillations, while they remain approximately harmonical . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=J. E. Acland, title=Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1859, author=Joseph Maclise, title=Surgical Anatomy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}