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homotony

homotony noun: the quality of being homotonous.

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

Forms of homotony

pluralhomotonies

Questions about homotony

What does homotony mean?
Homotony means the quality of being homotonous.
What part of speech is homotony?
Homotony is a noun.
What is the plural of homotony?
The plural of homotony is homotonies.

Words near homotony in the dictionary

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

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