"meantone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: meantones [plural]
Etymology: mean + tone Etymology templates: {{compound|en|mean|tone}} mean + tone Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)
  1. (music) 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. Wikipedia link: meantone Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-meantone-en-noun-B8S5Flb9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Inflected forms

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