Usually means: Smallest interval in Western music.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. semitone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. semitone: Merriam-Webster
  3. semitone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. semitone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. semitone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. semitone: Vocabulary.com
  7. semitone: Wordnik
  8. semitone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. semitone: Wiktionary
  10. semitone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. semitone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. semitone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. semitone: Dictionary.com
  14. Semitone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Semitone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. semitone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. semitone: Rhymezone
  18. semitone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. semitone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. semitone: FreeDictionary.org
  21. semitone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. semitone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Semitone: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. semitone: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. semitone: The Folk File
  2. semitone: Urban Dictionary

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

(Note: See semitones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A musical interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used
noun:  (music) Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale

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