Word Meanings - POLYPHONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic. (more info) 1. Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Additional info about word: POLYPHONIC

Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic. (more info) 1. Having a multiplicity of sounds. 2. Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• MONODIC; MONODICAL
  1. Belonging to a monody. For one voice; monophonic. Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• MELODICS
  The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• ACCORDING
  Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of