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half step

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A marching step of 15 inches (38 centimeters) at quick time and 18 inches (46 centimeters) at double time.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, a semitone. See semitone, step, and tone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun music, US An interval of which there are seven in a fifth or twelve in an octave, consisting of two tones whose frequency ratio is about 1.059 or 18/17.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. interval
  2. musical interval

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  4. cell-cycle
  5. ever-ascending
  6. five-second
  7. half-instinctive
  8. husbanding
  9. innocent.'
  10. reauthentication
  11. shape-changing
  12. ungratified
  13. unspectacular
  14. wavelike
  15. whisper-soft
  16. whole-tone

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  1. cent
  2. whole step

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