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Definition: Musical Scale |
Musical ScaleNoun1. A series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | A graduated series of sounds, ascending or descending in order of frequency according to a specified scheme of intervals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Musical ScaleSynonym: scale (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Musical Scale |
| English words defined with "musical scale": Enharmonical ♦ gapped scale, glissando ♦ Kent bugle ♦ scalic, SI, slide, so, soh, sol, Sol-fa, solfa syllable, solmisation, solmization, swoop ♦ Te, Ti. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "musical scale": equally tempered scale ♦ just scale ♦ Newton's colours ♦ Pythagorean scale. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "musical scale": Alamire. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
musical scale | 75 |
mathematics musical scale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "musical scale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 徵 (levy, note in Chinese musical scale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toneskala. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | toonladder (gamut, key, scale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sävelasteikko (gamut, key, scale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gamme, échelle musicale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | musikalische Stimmung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουσική κλίμακα (gamut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 音階 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | お"かい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aarey chiaull. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usicalmay alescay escala musical (gamut). (various references) escala musical. (various references) tonskala (gamut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-l-l-m-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: camellias, caulicles, classical, musicales. | |
-4 letters: acclaims, accusals, aciculae, aciculas, caesiums, calciums, calicles, calluses, camelias, camellia, caulicle, cullises, mailless, malaises, miscalls, musicale, musicals, saccules. | |
-5 letters: acclaim, accusal, accuses, acicula, aimless, alcaics, aliases, alliums, almuces, amusias, caesium, calamus, calcium, calculi, calesas, calices, calicle, camails, camases, camelia, camisas, camises, casuals, causals, celiacs, cesiums, cicalas, classic, clausal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-l-l-m-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: miscalculates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 69 63 61 6C 53 63 61 6C 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u s i c a l   S c a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0073 0069 0063 0061 006C 0053 0063 0061 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4787857569677825369677871 |
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