diminished octave

English

Noun

diminished octave (plural diminished octaves)

  1. (music) A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of eleven semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone narrower than a perfect octave and enharmonically equivalent to a major seventh.
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