diapason
Americannoun
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a full, rich outpouring of melodious sound.
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the compass of a voice or instrument.
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a fixed standard of pitch.
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either of two principal timbres or stops of a pipe organ, one of full, majestic tone open diapason and the other of strong, flutelike tone stopped diapason.
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any of several other organ stops.
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a tuning fork.
noun
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either of two stops ( open and stopped diapason ) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
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the compass of an instrument or voice
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a standard pitch used for tuning, esp the now largely obsolete one of A above middle C = 435 hertz, known as diapason normal ( French ( djapazɔ̃ nɔrmal )
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a tuning fork or pitch pipe
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(in classical Greece) an octave
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of diapason
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English diapasoun, dyapason, from Latin diapāsōn “the whole octave,” from Greek dià pāsôn (chordôn) “through all (the notes),” short for hē dià pāsôn chordôn symphōnía “the concord through all the notes of the scale”
Example Sentences
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“Of course,” he told The Diapason, a publication about organs, in 2014, “any 3-year-old can figure out how to get into a piano if he really wants to, and I did.”
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
Last week Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to know who was entitled to the dividend�the Guild or Pumper Whitney?
From Time Magazine Archive
Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then King Diapason ordered a great wedding to be held.
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice
This was a large metal Diapason of ordinary construction, voiced on heavy wind pressure.
From The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments by Miller, George Laing
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