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quarter-tone

quarter-tone is the alternative spelling of quarter tone.

Meaning of quarter tone

Noun

quarter tone (plural quarter tones)

  1. The musical interval equal to one quarter of a tone or 1/24 of an octave; half a semitone.

Forms of quarter-tone

pluralquarter-tones

Questions about quarter-tone

What is quarter-tone the alternative spelling of?
Quarter-tone is the alternative spelling of quarter tone.

Words near quarter-tone in the dictionary

  1. quarter-staves
  2. quarter-sucker
  3. quarter-suckers
  4. quarter-time
  5. quarter-times
  6. quarter-tone
  7. quarter-tones
  8. quarter-up price
  9. quarter-up prices
  10. quarter-wave plate
  11. quarter-wave plates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quarter-tone (page history and authors); quarter tone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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