Usually means: Seven half-steps, dissonant chord interval.
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  1. diminished seventh: Merriam-Webster
  2. diminished seventh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diminished seventh: Collins English Dictionary
  4. diminished seventh: Wiktionary
  5. Diminished seventh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (diminished seventh)

noun:  (music) A musical interval equivalent to narrowing a minor seventh by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of nine semitones and spans seven degrees of the diatonic scale, is one semitone narrower than a minor seventh, and is enharmonically equivalent to a major sixth.

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