combinationaladj.
/kɒmbɪˈneɪʃənəl/ a. Of or pertaining to combination.
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1681 Blount's Glossographia (ed. 5) Combinational Churches, are the Independent Churches, by some so stiled.
b. Music in combinational tone, a note produced by the combined sounding of two other notes, a resultant tone.
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resultant note1836
resultant tone1836
summation tone1867
summation-tone (or summational tone)1867
combinational tone1879
combination tone1889
1879 E. J. Payne in Grove Dict. Music I. 727 No minor chord can be obtained perfectly free from such false combinational tones.
1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 312 Combinational tones are of two kinds..differential tones..summational tones.
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