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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In medieval music, the interval of a double octave or fifteenth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anc. Mus.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. Compare diapason{1}.

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  • noun music, Ancient Greece An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth.

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dis- +‎ diapason

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