Usually means: Baroque music's numerical bass shorthand.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (figured bass)

▸ noun:  (music) A musical notation in which intervals, chords and harmonizations are indicated by numbers written below a given bass note.

Similar:
bass, bass note, bass clef, keyboard bass, tablature, tabulature, B-flat, musical notation, slash chord, square notation, more...

Opposite:
unfigured bass, thorough bass, basso continuo

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Similar:
bass, bass note, bass clef, keyboard bass, tablature, tabulature, B-flat, musical notation, slash chord, square notation, more...

Opposite:
unfigured bass, thorough bass, basso continuo



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