Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek music, the interval of a half-tone; a perfect fourth less two tones, represented by the ratio 256:243: not exactly equivalent to a modern semitone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
semitone .
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- noun music A
semitone .
Etymologies
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Latin hemitonium, from Ancient Greek.
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