Semidiapente
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A diminished fifth. archaic
"It will have its true ratio from the tritone and the major semitone, but not from that of the semidiapente and the minor semitone, as the next calculation shows."
Example
More examples"It will have its true ratio from the tritone and the major semitone, but not from that of the semidiapente and the minor semitone, as the next calculation shows."
Etymology
From semi- + diapente.
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