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gim⋅el

  [gim-uhl]
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–noun
1. the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.
3. Music. gymel.
Origin:
< Heb gīmel, akin to gāmāl camel

gym⋅el

  [jim-uhl]
–noun Music.
the technique, found in some medieval English music, of singing voice parts in parallel thirds.
Also, gimel.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME gimeles, gemeles twins < MF gemel, gimel twin; see gimmal, geminate
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gim·el   (gĭm'əl)   
n.  The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

[Hebrew gîmel, of Phoenician origin; see gml2 in Semitic roots.]
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gimel

(from Latin cantus gemellus, "twin song"), medieval musical style of two-part polyphonic composition, possibly of popular origin, in which the voices move mainly in consecutive intervals of a third or a sixth. Crossing of parts is a common characteristic. Although gymel compositions have been preserved in manuscripts dating from the beginning of the 13th century, the name itself is first found in a detailed description of the style by the 15th-century theoretician Guilielmus Monachus.

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