musical scale

Questions about musical scale

What does musical scale mean?

musical scale means "(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)".

What is another word for musical scale?

Close synonyms include scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical scale a common word?

musical scale 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for musical scale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.