tritone

tritone
noun Etymology: Greek tritonon, from tri- + tonos tone Date: 1609 a musical interval of three whole steps

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  • Tritone — Tri tone , n. [Gr. tri tonos of three tones; tri tri + to nos a tone.] (Mus.) A superfluous or augmented fourth. [R.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tritone — [trī′tōn΄] n. [ML tritonum < Gr tritonon: see TRI & TONE] Music an interval of three whole tones …   English World dictionary

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  • tritone — /truy tohn /, n. Music. an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth. [1600 10; < ML tritonus < Gk trítonos having three tones. See TRI , TONE] * * * ▪ music       in music, the interval encompassed by three consecutive whole… …   Universalium

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  • Tritone paradox — The tritone paradox is an auditory illusion in which a sequentially played pair of Shepard tones [1] separated by an interval of a tritone, or half octave, is heard as ascending by some people and as descending by others …   Wikipedia

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