diminished fourth

English

Noun

diminished fourth (plural diminished fourths)

  1. (music) A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of four semitones and spanning four degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone narrower than a perfect fourth and enharmonically equivalent to a major third.

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