meantone

English

Etymology

From mean +‎ tone.

Noun

meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)

1. (music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.

Anagrams

• nonemeat