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tritones

tritones is the plural of tritone.

Meaning of tritone

Noun (1)

tritone (plural tritones)

  1. An interval of three whole tones.
    • Near-synonyms: augmented fourth, diminished fifth

Noun (2)

tritone (plural tritones)

  1. A picture printed in three shades.
    • In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.1995, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, “Converting from One Mode to Another”, in Fundamental Photoshop, 2nd edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 380

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Questions about tritones

What is tritones the plural of?
Tritones is the plural of tritone.

Words near tritones in the dictionary

  1. Triton Island
  2. tritonal
  3. tritonality
  4. tritone
  5. tritoned
  6. tritones
  7. Tritoness
  8. Tritonesses
  9. tritonia
  10. Tritonian
  11. tritonias

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