Usually means: Smallest interval in Western music.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word half step:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. half step: Merriam-Webster
  2. half step: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half step: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. half-step, half-step, half step: Collins English Dictionary
  5. half step: Vocabulary.com
  6. Half-Step, half-step, half step: Wordnik
  7. half step: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. half-step, half step: Wiktionary
  9. half step: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. half step: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Half step, half step: Dictionary.com
  12. Half-step, Half step: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. half step: Rhymezone
  14. half step: FreeDictionary.org
  15. half step: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. half-step, half step: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. half step: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Half-step, half step: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. half step: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. half step: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See half_steps as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (half step)

noun:  (music, US) The distance between two tones. In 12-tone equal temperament, its frequency ratio is 2^(1/12), or about 1.059 or 18/17.

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