Usually means: Seven notes, whole and half steps.
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  1. major scale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. major scale: Vocabulary.com
  3. major scale: Wordnik
  4. major scale: Wiktionary
  5. major scale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. major scale: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Major scale, major scale: Dictionary.com
  8. Major scale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. major scale: Rhymezone
  10. major scale: FreeDictionary.org
  11. major scale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. major scale: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. major scale: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. major scale: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (major scale)

noun:  (music) One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.

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