Usually means: Three whole steps, dissonant interval.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. tritone: Merriam-Webster
  2. tritone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tritone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tritone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tritone, tritone: Wordnik
  6. tritone: Wiktionary
  7. tritone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tritone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. tritone: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tritone: Dictionary.com
  11. Tritone (disambiguation), Tritone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Tritone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tritone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Tritone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. tritone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. tritone: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tritone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tritone: The Folk File
  2. tritone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tritone)

▸ noun:  (music) An interval of three whole tones.
▸ noun:  A picture printed in three shades.
▸ adjective:  Having three tones.

Similar:
quadtone, tierce, triad, tritave, triole, third, whole tone, tetrachord, minor third, terzina, more...

Opposite:
perfect fifth, consonance, harmony

Types:
diminished fifth, augmented fourth, more...

Phrases:
Tritone substitution, more...

Adjectives:
melodic, same, prominent, downward, major, linear, crowded, dissonant, busy, harmonic

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Similar:
quadtone, tierce, triad, tritave, triole, third, whole tone, tetrachord, minor third, terzina, more...

Opposite:
perfect fifth, consonance, harmony

Types:
diminished fifth, augmented fourth, more...

Phrases:
Tritone substitution, more...

Adjectives:
melodic, same, prominent, downward, major, linear, crowded, dissonant, busy, harmonic



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