semitone

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ tone

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmitoʊn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

semitone (plural semitones)

(music) A musical interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used
(music) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale

Synonyms

Related terms

hemitonic

Translations

interval between adjacent keys

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: tonuerdi
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: semitò m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 半音 (bun³ jam¹)

Mandarin: 半音 (zh) (bànyīn)
Czech: půltón m
Danish: halvtone c
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Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: hálvtóni m
Finnish: puoliaskel, puolisävelaskel (fi)
French: demi-ton (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Halbton (de) m
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Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: félhang (hu)
Icelandic: hálftónn m
Italian: semitono (it) m
Japanese: 半音 (ja) (han'on)
Khmer: ជំហានពាក់កណ្តាល (cumhaanpĕəkkɑɑntaal)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
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Maori: waehaurua
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Norwegian:
Bokmål: halvtone m

Nynorsk: halvtone m
Persian: نیمپرده (fa) sg (nīmparde)
Polish: półton (pl) 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
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: hanner tôn m

See also

cent

Anagrams

meneitos, monetise, one-times

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