Usually means: Equal division of the octave.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. equal temperament: Merriam-Webster
  2. equal temperament: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. equal temperament: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. equal temperament: Vocabulary.com
  5. equal temperament: Wordnik
  6. equal temperament: Wiktionary
  7. equal temperament: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Equal temperament, equal temperament: Dictionary.com
  9. Equal temperament: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. equal temperament: Rhymezone
  11. equal temperament: FreeDictionary.org
  12. equal temperament: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. equal temperament: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. equal temperament: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (equal temperament)

noun:  (music theory) A tuning system in which every interval, as a ratio of frequencies) is some exactly positive integral power of some smallest, other than the unison, base interval. In particular:
noun:  Twelve-tone equal temperament: The European semi-harmonic interval compromise among the chromatic notes.

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