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单词 diesis
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diesisn.

/ˈdʌɪɪsɪs/
Forms: Plural dieses /-iːz/.
Etymology: < Latin diesis, Greek δίεσις a quarter-tone, lit. a sending through or apart, < διϊέναι to send through, < διά through + ἱέναι to send.
1. Music.
a. In ancient Greek music, a name given to several different intervals smaller than a tone; esp. the Pythagorean semitone, equal to the difference between two major tones and a perfect fourth (ratio 243:256).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > microtones
diesisa1398
sruti1793
enharmonic1883
microtone1914
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1387 Diesis is þe space and doynge of melodie and chaungynge out of oon soune into anoþer.
b. In modern music, the interval equal to the difference between three major thirds and an octave, or between the chromatic and diatonic semitones (ratio 125:128); usually called enharmonic diesis.
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1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶v Diesis is the halfe of the lesse halfe note.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 158 The Ditone, made by these two Degrees, is too much by a Diesis (128 to 125).
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 210 He makes great ado about dividing tones major, tones minor, dieses and commas.
1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony i. 8 The effect of the Enharmonic diesis is employed by no means rarely in..musical performances.
2. Printing. The sign ‡, usually called ‘double dagger’.[Formerly used to denote a diesis in Music: cf. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v., ‘The chromatic, or double diesis, denoted by a double cross.’ In French, the sign of the ‘sharp’ ♯ is called dièse.]
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society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > dagger or double dagger
obelisk1583
dagger1706
diesis1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diesis..among Printers it is taken for a Mark, otherwise call'd a Double-dagger ‡.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 701/1 Diesis (Printing), the double dagger (‡), a reference-mark.
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