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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A note having one-eighth the time value of a whole note.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In musical notation, a note having half the time-value of a quarter-note; a quaver: marked by the sign or , or, when grouped, , .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A note having one-eighth the duration of a
whole note ; aquaver
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
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