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GAPPED SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gapped scale mean? 

GAPPED SCALE (noun)
  The noun GAPPED SCALE has 1 sense:

1. a musical scale with fewer than seven notesplay

  Familiarity information: GAPPED SCALE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GAPPED SCALE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical scale with fewer than seven notes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gapped scale" is a kind of...):

musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gapped scale"):

pentatone; pentatonic scale (a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted)


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