a. [f. SUMMATION + -AL.] Produced by summation or addition. Summational tone: see TONE sb. 2.

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1873.  A. J. Ellis, in Atkinson, trans. Helmholtz’ Pop. Lect. Sci. Subj., iii. 102, note. These [combinational tones] are of two kinds, differential and summational, according as their pitch is the difference or sum of the pitches of the two generating tones.

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1881.  J. Naylor, Lett., in Nature, XXIV. 2 June, 100/2. I tried in vain however to obtain resonance for a differential and summational tone.

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