Usually means: Five-note musical scale system.
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  1. pentatonic: Merriam-Webster
  2. pentatonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pentatonic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pentatonic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pentatonic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pentatonic, pentatonic: Wordnik
  7. pentatonic: Wiktionary
  8. pentatonic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pentatonic: Dictionary.com
  10. Pentatonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pentatonic: Rhymezone
  12. pentatonic: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pentatonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pentatonic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pentatonic: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pentatonic)

▸ adjective:  (music) Based on five tones.
▸ noun:  (music) The pentatonic scale.

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pentaphonic, tetratonic, octatonic, hexatonic, quinquegrade, heptatonic, enneatonic, tritone, decatonic, tertian, more...

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pentatonic scale, pentatonic scales, pentatonic collection, more...

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pentaphonic, tetratonic, octatonic, hexatonic, quinquegrade, heptatonic, enneatonic, tritone, decatonic, tertian, more...

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pentatonic scale, pentatonic scales, pentatonic collection, more...



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