double sharp

noun

Music.

1. a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.

2. a note or tone marked or affected by such a symbol.

double sharp

noun

1. music

   1. an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by two semitones

   2. a note affected by this accidental

adjective

1. (immediately postpositive) denoting a note of a given letter name raised in pitch by two semitones

Example Sentences

For example, if, in an augmented G sharp major chord, you rewrite the D double sharp as an E natural, the triad becomes an E augmented chord.

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The double sharp was felt by him to be unsatisfactory, and was sacrificed.

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Not only all the natural or diatonic notes are regarded as belonging to a key, but also all the chromatics, the sharps and flats, and the double sharps and double flats.

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The double sharp is made either thus or *, the first form being at present the more common.

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Then there was the double sharp report of firearms, and nothing more.

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