"A minor" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} A minor (uncountable)
  1. (music) The minor key with A as its tonic, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Music Translations (the minor key with A as its tonic): a小調 /a小调 (ēixiǎodiào) (Chinese Mandarin), a-moll [common-gender] (Danish), a-mineur (Dutch), a-klein (Dutch), a-molli (Finnish), la mineur [masculine] (French), a-Moll [neuter] (German), a-moll (Hungarian), la minore [masculine] (Italian), イ短調 (itanchō) (alt: イたんちょう) (Japanese), 가단조 (gadanjo) (Korean), a-moll [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), a-moll [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ля мино́р (lja minór) [masculine] (Russian), a-moll (Swedish), la minör (Turkish)
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  2. (music) The minor chord with a root of A. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Music Translations (the minor chord with a root of A): a-mineur (Dutch), a-klein (Dutch), la mineur [masculine] (French), a-Moll [neuter] (German), a-moll (Hungarian), a-moll [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-A_minor-en-noun-ExQoUAgC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 47 53 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'the minor chord with a root of A': 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "a-Moll"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the minor chord with a root of A",
      "word": "a-moll"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the minor chord with a root of A",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "a-moll"
    }
  ],
  "word": "A minor"
}

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