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Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi keskisävel

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

meanwhile meanwhile garden meanwhile site meanwhile space meanwhile use meanwhilst

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