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semitone

noun

Meaning

  1. The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave
  2. Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale

Etymology / origin

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Related words

half step(English)diatonic(English)halftone(English)half tone(English)subsemitone(English)quarter tone(English)half-tone(English)hemitone(English)enharmonic(English)tritone(English)diesis(English)tetrachord(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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