DIATONIC SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diatonic scale mean? 

• DIATONIC SCALE (noun)
  The noun DIATONIC SCALE has 1 sense:

1. a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIATONIC SCALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("diatonic 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 "diatonic scale"):

mode; musical mode (any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave)