semitone

  1. Noun.  (music) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave.
  2. Noun.  (music) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale.

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