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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marching step of 15 inches (38 centimeters) at quick time and 18 inches (46 centimeters) at double time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a semitone. See semitone, step, and tone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music, US An
interval of which there are seven in afifth or twelve in anoctave , consisting of twotones whosefrequency ratio is about 1.059 or 18/17.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
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