"A-flat" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: A-flats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} A-flat (plural A-flats)
  1. (music) A tone one semitone below A, between G and A, denoted A♭. Categories (topical): Music Translations (tone four fifths below C): A-mol (Afrikaans), 降A (Chinese Mandarin), as (Czech), as (Danish), As (Dutch), as (Finnish), As (German), asz (Hungarian), as [neuter] (Icelandic), La bemolle (Italian), as (Polish), ass (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-A-flat-en-noun-FhBcR4B0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 42 43 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'tone four fifths below C': 57 18 25
  2. (music) A key or other mechanism for producing an A-flat. Categories (topical): Music Translations (mechanism for producing an A-flat): as-takki [masculine] (Icelandic), as-klappi [masculine] (Icelandic)
    Sense id: en-A-flat-en-noun-2NFdyhuQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 42 43 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'mechanism for producing an A-flat': 3 71 26
  3. (music) The key of A-flat major. Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-A-flat-en-noun-E9en1JoY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 42 43 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: A flat, a-flat, a flat, A♭ Derived forms: A-flat major, A-flat minor
Coordinate_terms: C♭, C, C♯, D♭, D, D♯, E♭, E, E♯, F♭, F, F♯, G♭, G, G♯, A♭, A, A♯, B♭, B, B♯

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