Usually means: Airflow through nose during phonation.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word nasals:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. nasals: Merriam-Webster
  2. nasals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nasals: Vocabulary.com
  4. nasals: Wordnik
  5. nasals: Wiktionary
  6. nasals: Dictionary.com
  7. Nasals: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Nasals: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nasals: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nasals: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Nasals: Medical dictionary

(Note: See nasal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nasal)

adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
adjective:  (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
adjective:  (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
adjective:  (music) Sharp, penetrating.
noun:  (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
noun:  (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
noun:  (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
noun:  An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
noun:  (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant. [A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.]
noun:  (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel. [(phonetics) A vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth.]
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone. [(anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.]
▸ Also see nasal


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