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| —adj | |
| 1. | Compare chromatic of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music |
| 2. | not involving the sharpening or flattening of the notes of the major or minor scale nor the use of such notes as modified by accidentals |
| [C16: from Late Latin diatonicus, from Greek diatonikos, from diatonos extending, from diateinein to stretch out, from | |
| dia'tonically | |
| —adv | |
| diatonicism | |
| —n | |
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Diatonicism
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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