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Musical scale

British pronunciation/mjˈuːzɪkəl skˈeɪl/
American pronunciation/mjˈuːzɪkəl skˈeɪl/
Musical scale
[NOUN]
1

(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

synonyms : scale
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musical scale definition and meaning
Examples
1And if you compare light energy to musical scales it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.
2Unlike zaju songs, which were written for a seven-note musical scale, chuan-qi plays are written for a pentatonic scale.
3In 1865, before Mendeleev published his first periodic table, a young chemist, and activist, John Newlands published a paper on the periodicity of elements, comparing their repetition, at least the first two rows of it, to a musical scale.
4Those 6 electrons of the p-orbital plus the 2 s-electrons are the eight electrons referred to in the octet rule: the desire for most of the lighter elements to have 8 electrons in their outer shell, just like a musical scale.
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