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homotonies

homotonies is the plural of homotony.

Meaning of homotony

Noun

homotony (usually uncountable, plural homotonies)

  1. (usually) The quality of being homotonous.
    • One has it, that the earliest payytanim, previous to the adaptation of the Arabic system of meter, continued the biblical homotony, i.e. the principle by which the number of accented syllables of each half-verse varied between two and four.1976, Eric Wener, Contributions to a Historical Study of Jewish Music, page 87

Questions about homotonies

What is homotonies the plural of?
Homotonies is the plural of homotony.

Words near homotonies in the dictionary

  1. homothety
  2. homothorax
  3. homothymine
  4. homotolerance
  5. homotonic
  6. homotonies
  7. homotonous
  8. homotony
  9. homotop
  10. homotope
  11. homotoped

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