Semiquaver

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British A sixteenth note.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In musical notation, same as sixteenth-note.
  • n. 2. Figuratively, something of very short duration; a very short space of time.
  • To play or sing in, or as in, semiquavers.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tone    musical note    note   
    Cross Reference
    semiquaver rest    minim    crotchet    semibreve   
    Variant