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  1. minor sixth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  3. Minor sixth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (minor sixth)

noun:  (music) A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 8:5. It is one chromatic semitone narrower than a major sixth. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of eight semitones and spanning six degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to an augmented fifth.

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