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semitone
This term describes the most granular unit of distance in the chromatic scale. It carries a technical, precise connotation used primarily by musicians, composers, and theorists to quantify the exact gap between two pitches without ambiguity.
In practical application, a semitone is the distance between any two adjacent keys on a piano, whether they are white or black. It serves as the building block for larger intervals, such as the whole tone, which consists of two semitones.
Meanings
Examples
Just shift the melody up by one semitone to change the key.
The piano keys are arranged so that every adjacent key is a semitone apart.
The singer struggled to hit the note, missing it by a single semitone.
In a chromatic scale, the interval between each consecutive note is a semitone.
I need to tune my guitar down by one semitone for this song.
The tension in the music increases as the melody rises by a semitone.