SEMITONE

Semitone

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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semitone

Noun

  1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave
  2. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale


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