Usually means: Four notes spanning five steps.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word tetrachord:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. tetrachord: Merriam-Webster
  2. tetrachord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tetrachord: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tetrachord: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tetrachord: Wordnik
  6. tetrachord: Wiktionary
  7. tetrachord: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tetrachord: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tetrachord: Dictionary.com
  10. Tetrachord: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Tetrachord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. tetrachord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Tetrachord: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tetrachord: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. tetrachord: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tetrachord: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tetrachord: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tetrachord: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tetrachord)

▸ noun:  (music) Any set of four different pitch classes.
▸ noun:  (music) A series of four sounds, forming a scale of two-and-a-half tones.

Similar:
trichord, pentachord, tetrachordo, octachord, quadrichord, heptachord, triad, quadricinium, polychord, dyad, more...

Types:
major, minor, augmented, diminished, more...

Adjectives:
upper, lower, second, first, chromatic, diatonic, enharmonic, minor, major, greek, conjunct

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Similar:
trichord, pentachord, tetrachordo, octachord, quadrichord, heptachord, triad, quadricinium, polychord, dyad, more...

Types:
major, minor, augmented, diminished, more...

Adjectives:
upper, lower, second, first, chromatic, diatonic, enharmonic, minor, major, greek, conjunct



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