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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient and medieval music, an interval containing five whole steps—that is, an augmented sixth. Compare
tritone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted
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