Definitions
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- adjective music
Atonal . - adjective computing, cryptography Without a
key .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality
Etymologies
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Examples
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He reached into his belt pouch and felt for the final stone he'd selected for this spell; a single flawless quartz-crystal, perfectly formed, unkeyed, and as colorless as pure water.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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He reached into his belt pouch and felt for the final stone he'd selected for this spell; a single flawless quartz-crystal, perfectly formed, unkeyed, and as colorless as pure water.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Also, by wholly mechanical processes of adjustment to environment, her manner and air became simpler, somewhat unkeyed: she unconsciously folded away her more shining wings.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Ollyett and I did not need to lift our little fingers any more than the Alpine climber whose last sentence has unkeyed the arch of the avalanche.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The assertion has to be used as a unkeyed assertion from the intermediate requestor to the back-end service.
Sun Bloggers Janice J. Heiss 2010
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"As he unkeyed his microphone, he hit the T.W.A. and cut it in half," said Peter W.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES BARRON 2010
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"As he unkeyed his microphone, he hit the T.W.A. and cut it in half," Mr. Bernhard recalled, referring to the end of the pilot's transmission.
NYT > Home Page By PATRICK MCGEEHAN 2010
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Since the CRC is an unkeyed, public function, it does not provide any meaningful integrity protection for the data.
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Since about half of the letters are unkeyed, it takes insight to complete the crossword.
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These rules called for, among other things: no unkeyed letters, not more than one-sixth of the squares to be black, and not more than one word at a time in a space.
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