tritone

[trahy-tohn]

noun Music.

an interval consisting of three whole tones; an augmented fourth.

Origin of tritone

1600–10; < Medieval Latin tritonus < Greek trítonos having three tones. See tri-, tone

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Even the Fountain of the Tritone hung all over with long spears and pendicles of ice.
William Sharp (Fiona Macleod)
Elizabeth A. Sharp

British Dictionary definitions for tritone

tritone

noun

a musical interval consisting of three whole tones; augmented fourth

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