quarter-tone

1. 1.

   half of a semitone

   Synonymsquarter tone

   Broaderinterval

Questions about quarter-tone

What does quarter-tone mean?

quarter-tone means "half of a semitone".

How many syllables are in quarter-tone?

quarter-tone has 3 syllables: quar-ter--tone. The stress falls on "quar".

What is another word for quarter-tone?

Close synonyms include quarter tone. 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 quarter-tone a common word?

quarter-tone 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.