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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Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Aperture :: Aperture (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall..
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.
C :: C () The C clef, a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C..
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..
Octofid :: Octofid (a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx..
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Jagged :: "Jagged (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks..
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..
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..
Cleft-footed :: Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.
Quinque- :: Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed..
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
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