APOTOME

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

2.
n.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]


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