semitone

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ tone

Noun

semitone (plural semitones)

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

Synonyms

Translations

interval between adjacent keys

Catalan: semitò m
Czech: půltón m
Danish: halvtone c
Faroese: hálvtóni m
Finnish: puoliaskel, puolisävelaskel (fi)
French: demi-ton (fr) m
Italian: semitono (it) m
Japanese: 半音 (ja) (han'on)

Maori: waehaurua
Norwegian: halvtone m
Portuguese: semitom (pt) m, meio-tom m
Romanian: semiton (ro) n
Russian: полуто́н (ru) m (polutón)
Slovak: poltón m
Slovene: polton m
Spanish: semitono (es) m

Anagrams

monetise, one-times

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