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tonuses

tonuses is the plural of tonus.

Meaning of tonus

Noun

tonus (countable and uncountable, plural tonuses or toni)

  1. tonicity; tone
    • muscular tonus
  2. A tonal system or mode used in Gregorian chant.
    • Aurelian associates antiphons and toni of the plain chant, so that the octave-based Pythagorean scale is exemlified by means of the liturgical chant, with the outstanding consequence that church music becomes the sounding representation of the harmony of the spherese and of human beings.2021, Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris, Aurélien Robert, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, page 69

Questions about tonuses

What is tonuses the plural of?
Tonuses is the plural of tonus.

Words near tonuses in the dictionary

  1. tontoniid
  2. tontoniids
  3. tontos
  4. Tonucci
  5. tonus
  6. tonuses
  7. tony
  8. Tony cronies
  9. Tony crony
  10. Tony Lumpkin
  11. Tony Lumpkins

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