Hypertext Webster Gateway: "diapason"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Diapason \Di`a*pa"son\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? (i. e., ? ? ? the
concord of the first and last notes, the octave); dia`
through + ?, gen. pl. of ? all: cf. F. diapason. Cf.
{Panacea}.]
1. (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the
tones of the diatonic scale.

2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.

The fair music that all creatures made . . . In
perfect diapason. --Milton.

3. The entire compass of tones.

Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The
diapason closing full in man. --Dryden.

4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal
diapason.

5. One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they
extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of
several kinds, as {open diapason}, {stopped diapason},
{double diapason}, and the like.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

diapason
n : either of the two main stops on a pipe organ [syn: {diapason
stop}]


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