Hypertext Webster Gateway: "semitone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Semitone \Sem"i*tone\, n. [Pref. semi- + tone. CF. {Hemitone}.]
(Mus.)
Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller
intervals of the diatonic scale.
Note: There is an impropriety in the use of this word, and
half step is now preferred. See {Tone}. --J. S. Dwight.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
semitone
n : the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard
instrument [syn: {half step}]
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