thirty-second note

American  

noun

Music.

1. a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.

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thirty-second note British  

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): demisemiquaver.  music a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve

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Etymology

Origin of thirty-second note

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

For example: an eighth-note rest dotted equals an eighth note and a sixteenth; and followed by two dots it equals an eighth, a sixteenth and a thirty-second note in time.

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