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wholetone

wholetone is the alternative form of whole tone.

Meaning of whole tone

Noun

whole tone (plural whole tones)

  1. The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to a frequency ratio of 8/7, 9/8, or 10/9, depending on the tuning system used. In meantone tunings (including twelve-tone equal temperament), there is only one whole tone, though tuning systems that are not meantone have a "major tone" of 9/8 and a "minor tone" of 10/9.
    Synonyms:
    tone, whole step

Forms of wholetone

pluralwholetones

Questions about wholetone

What is wholetone the alternative form of?
Wholetone is the alternative form of whole tone.

Words near wholetone in the dictionary

  1. wholest
  2. wholestitch
  3. wholetail
  4. wholetails
  5. wholetime
  6. wholetone
  7. wholetones
  8. wholetrain
  9. wholetrains
  10. wholewheat
  11. wholewheat bread

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wholetone (page history and authors); whole 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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