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hemidemisemiquaver

hemidemisemiquaver noun: a sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.

Noun

hemidemisemiquaver (plural hemidemisemiquavers)

  1. A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
    • But the young gentleman […] walked down the dark side of the street in peals of laughter, making, ever and anon, little breathless remarks to himself, which his colleague could not hear, but which seemed to have the effect of setting him off again into new hemi-demi-semiquavers and roars of...1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

Forms of hemidemisemiquaver

pluralhemidemisemiquavers

Origin of hemidemisemiquaver

From hemi- + demisemiquaver.

Words formed from hemidemisemiquaver

Phrases with hemidemisemiquaver

Questions about hemidemisemiquaver

What does hemidemisemiquaver mean?
Hemidemisemiquaver means a sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
What part of speech is hemidemisemiquaver?
Hemidemisemiquaver is a noun.
What is the plural of hemidemisemiquaver?
The plural of hemidemisemiquaver is hemidemisemiquavers.

Words near hemidemisemiquaver in the dictionary

  1. hemidecortication
  2. hemidecortications
  3. hemidecussate
  4. hemidecussation
  5. hemidegenerate
  6. hemidemisemiquaver
  7. hemidemisemiquaver rest
  8. hemidemisemiquaver rests
  9. hemidemisemiquavers
  10. hemidemosome
  11. hemidepleted

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