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English
Etymology
From semi- + tone.
Pronunciation
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
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Translations
interval between adjacent keys
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- 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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- Hungarian: félhang (hu)
- Icelandic: hálftónn m
- Italian: semitono (it) m
- Japanese: 半音 (ja) (han'on)
- Khmer: ជំហានពាក់កណ្តាល (cumhaanpĕəkkɑɑntaal)
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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
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