| 单词 | minor scale |
| 释义 | minor scale in American English Music any of the twelve diatonic scales distinguished from the major scale with the same keynote by a semitone after the second and seventh tones or after the second, fifth, and seventh tones minor scale in American Englishnoun 1. Also called: harmonic minor scale a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals 2. Also called: melodic minor scale a scale having the third degree lowered a half step when ascending, and the seventh, sixth, and third degrees lowered a half step when descending Word origin [1885–90]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, retread, scrum, seminar, sensitization |
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