GENDER

Gender

A gendèr is a type of metallophone used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan music. It consists of 10 to 14 tuned metal bars suspended over a tuned resonator of bamboo or metal, which are tapped with a mallet made of wooden disks or a padded wooden disk . Each key is a note of a different pitch, often extending a little more than two octaves. There are five notes per octave, so in the seven-note pélog scale, some pitches are left out according to the pathet. Most gamelans include three gendèr, one for sléndro, one for pelog pathet nem and lima, and one for pelog pathet barang.

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gender

Noun

  1. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.
  2. The biological sex of an individual (usually male or female and sometimes intersex).
  3. The mental analogue of sex: one's maleness (masculinity) or femaleness (femininity).
  4. The sociocultural phenomenon of the division of people into various categories such as "male" and "female", with each having associated clothing, roles, stereotypes, etc.
  5. class; kind

Verb

  1. To assign a gender to; to perceive as having a gender, or having been authored etc. by someone of that gender.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To engender.
  2. To breed.


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