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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Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..
Splitfeet :: Split (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Octofid :: Octofid (a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
Cliff :: Cliff (n.) See Clef.
Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Palma Christi :: Palma Christi () A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant..
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..
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Parted :: Parted (a.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc..
Cut :: Cut (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
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