Definition of clef

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Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

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Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Jag :: Jag (n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
G :: G () G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G/ (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..
Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Signature :: Signature (v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major..
Clove :: Clove (imp.) Cleft.
Two-cleft :: Two-cleft (a.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Quinque- :: Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed..
Pentafid :: Pentafid (a.) Divided or cleft into five parts.
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
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