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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Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
Quinque- :: Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
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..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
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..
Fissile :: Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals..
Pygopod :: Pygopod (n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Cleft :: Cleft (imp.) of Cleav.
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..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
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.
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..
Clef :: Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
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