Tritone

//ˈtɹaɪˌtəʊ̯n//

"Tritone" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Jazz musicians often like to use tritone substitutions.

Near-synonyms: augmented fourth, diminished fifth

The tritone has a pitch ratio close to 17:12.

The mini-epic “Seasons in the Abyss,” with its ringing tritone interval at the beginning, its extended solos, its medium tempo, was as close as Slayer got to a groove.

In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.

When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.

The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four.

The first cotume^([sic]) in which Mrs. Earle appeared was a tritone dress of crepe, with a brown velour cloche and brown calf sling pumps.

Fortrel-and-rayon-linen tritone dress, with drawstring waist.

Tritone jacket has contrast nylon inserts. 80(Blue/Red/Wht.), 38(Beige/Navy/Red).

It is hard to believe that today’s signs may be tomorrow’s beloved ghosts, but sure as my 1970’s polyester tritone shirt and my plebeian 1964 Volvo are now “classics,” it will likely be so.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.