GAPPED SCALE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A musical scale with fewer than seven notes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gapped scale" is a kind of...):

musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gapped scale"):

pentatone; pentatonic scale (a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted)