a. [f. prec. + -AL.] Of or pertaining to combination.

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1681.  Blount, Glossogr., Combinational Churches, are the Independent Churches, by some so stiled.

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  b.  Mus. in Combinational tone, a note produced by the combined sounding of two other notes, a resultant tone.

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1879.  E. J. Payne, in Grove, Dict. Mus., I. 727. No minor chord can be obtained perfectly free from such false combinational tones.

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1881.  Broadhouse, Mus. Acoustics, 312. Combinational tones are of two kinds … differential tones … summational tones.

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