meantone
English
noun
Definitions
- (music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of tempered perfect fifths and, by choosing an appropriate size for major and minor thirds, tempers the syntonic comma to unison.
Etymology
Compound from English mean (lowly, base, signify, common) + English tone.
Origin
English
tone
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- allotone English
- bemean English
- betone English
- demean English
- demitone English
- ditone English
- downtone English
- duotone English
- eigentone English
- fuzztone English
- gammatone English
- geomean English
- goldtone English
- halftone English
- hemitonic English
- intermean English
- mean English
- meanable English
- meanest English
- meaneth English
- meanie English
- meaning English
- meanish English
- meanless English
- meanling English
- meanly English
- meanness English
- meanship English
- meantime English
- meanwhile English
- meany English
- microtone English
- midtone English
- mismean English
- multitone English
- overtone English
- paratone English
- polytone English
- quadtone English
- realtone English
- retone English
- ringtone English
- screentone English
- semimean English
- semitone English
- sesquitone English
- sidetone English
- silvertone English
- subtone English
- tonal English
- tone English
- tonearm English
- tonebar English
- toneless English
- tonelike English
- toneme English
- tonepad English
- toner English
- tonewheel English
- tonewood English
- tonic English
- tonification English
- tonify English
- tonology English
- tonous English
- tony English
- touchtone English
- trimean English
- tritone English
- truetone English
- undertone English
- unmean English
- whaddayamean English
- tonus Latin
- tono Italian
- ton Polish
- menen Middle English
- mên Welsh
- tony
- mean
- tone
- meany
- toner
- tonal
- tonic
- ditone
- bemean
- meanly
- unmean
- tonify
- demean
- meanie
- retone
- betone
- tonous
- toneme
- meanest
- geomean
- duotone
- tonebar
- meanish
- meaneth
- tonepad
- midtone
- trimean
- mismean
- subtone
- tonearm
- meaning
- tritone
- meanness
- meantime
- meanless
- semitone
- polytone
- tonelike
- semimean
- allotone
- meanable
- halftone
- fuzztone
- goldtone
- downtone
- tonology
- meanship
- realtone
- demitone
- paratone
- meanling
- tonewood
- toneless
- quadtone
- ringtone
- overtone
- sidetone
- truetone
- touchtone
- intermean
- multitone
- meanwhile
- gammatone
- eigentone
- hemitonic
- undertone
- microtone
- tonewheel
- screentone
- sesquitone
- silvertone
- whaddayamean
- tonification