semitone
noun/ˈsɛmitoʊn/
Etymology From semi- + tone.
1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music One of two parts, equal or unequal, in which a whole tone is divided.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The semitone in 12-tone equal temperament, with frequency ratio of the twelfth root of two.
3
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Broadly Any of the pitches of a chromatic scale.
4
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music An interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used.
- Derived terms
- chromatic semitone, diatonic semitone, semitonic, subsemitone