double sharp

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   a musical notation of two sharps in front of a note indicating that it is to be raised by two semitones

   Broadersharp

Questions about double sharp

What does double sharp mean?

double sharp means "a musical notation of two sharps in front of a note indicating that it is to be raised by two semitones".

Is double sharp a common word?

double sharp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.