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whole step
noun
An interval equal to two half steps or a ratio of 1.122.
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He's a whole step on".
But in the bass clef it's a whole step.
But supposing we traded in those two half steps for one whole step.
Within the space of two weeks, my instrument rose by a whole step and got bigger.
This protection of the NHS is an important step but it's not the whole step".
But Golaud's essentially two-note theme (an alternating whole step) seems almost stuck in place.
You can't get a whole step; maybe you can get a half-step.
This element of digital transformation refers to the whole step of transformation journey – preparing employees and leadership to changes.
Levitin, because the word "tone" has more than one meaning, speaks of a "whole step" and a semitone.
Generally speaking, dissonant intervals have ratios such as nine to eight for the whole step or seventeen to sixteen for the half step.
I've had to learn to sing a tritone as easily as a whole step, and a minor ninth as easily as an octave.
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