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De - Pt| English Dictionary: diapason | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Diapason \Di`a*pa"son\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] (i. e., [?] [?] [?] the concord of the first and last notes, the octave); dia` through + [?], gen. pl. of [?] all: cf. F. diapason. Cf. {Panacea}.] 1. (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. 2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. --Milton. 3. The entire compass of tones. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. --Dryden. 4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason. 5. One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as {open diapason}, {stopped diapason}, {double diapason}, and the like. | |
