Usually means: Sustained tone under changing harmonies.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedal point: Merriam-Webster
  2. pedal point: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pedal point: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pedal point: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pedal point: Vocabulary.com
  6. pedal-point: Wordnik
  7. pedal point: Wiktionary
  8. pedal point: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pedal point: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pedal point: Dictionary.com
  11. Pedal point: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. pedal point: Rhymezone
  13. pedal point: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pedal point: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pedal point: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedal point: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Pedal Point: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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

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noun:  (music) A sustained bass pitch.

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