The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SEMITONE
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More clues leading to the result SEMITONE
- Send out a person after small interval
- X over single interval
- English National Opera gets by over interval
- Permanent recording label’s musical interval
- Maybe note is me?
- Interval required to reverse X and 1
- Discharge some after second interval
- Difference between pitches rejected by United
- Jew holds on for an interval
- Interval: time one’s wasted
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What does SEMITONE mean?
SEMITONE noun- The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to half a tone or one-twelfth of an octave
- Any of the pitches of the chromatic scale