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    DIATONIC SCALE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tonesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("diatonic scale" is a kind of...):

    musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diatonic scale"):

    mode; musical mode (any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave)

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