Semidiapente

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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