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half step
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Princeton's WordNet
semitone, half stepnoun
the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
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half stepnoun
An interval of which there are seven in a fifth or twelve in an octave, consisting of two tones whose frequency ratio is about 1.059 or 18/17.
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In music theory, a half-step, also known as semitone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most basic unit of measurement in pitch. It is the distance between two adjacent keys on a piano keyboard, or two adjacent frets on a guitar. For example, the interval from a C to a C-sharp or from a C-sharp to a D on a keyboard are both half steps.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Half Step in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Half Step in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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Our upright wasn't much of a piano — it was a half-step flat the entire time we owned it — but that piano was everything to me. It was dark mahogany, almost black, with rouge crimps all over it. I took about eight piano lessons before my teacher gave up on me. I loved boogie-woogie and hillbilly music and gospel too much.
At best, it could be seen as a half-step, but not a full step, to embracing the actual medical utility of cannabis.
We can continue in the situation we've been in for months which is one step forward, further into the trade war abyss, followed by one step or a half step backwards.
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