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diazeuctic

diazeuctic adjective: disjoining two fourths.

Adjective

diazeuctic (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Disjoining two fourths.
    • the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth
    • diazeuctic interval

Forms of diazeuctic

alternative formdiazeutic

Origin of diazeuctic

Ancient Greek διαζευκτικός (diazeuktikós, “disjunctive”).

Questions about diazeuctic

What does diazeuctic mean?
Diazeuctic means disjoining two fourths.
What part of speech is diazeuctic?
Diazeuctic is an adjective.

Words near diazeuctic in the dictionary

  1. diazetanes
  2. diazete
  3. diazetes
  4. diazetidine
  5. diazetidines
  6. diazeuctic
  7. diazeugma
  8. diazeugmenon
  9. diazeutic
  10. diazeuxes
  11. diazeuxis

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