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".

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.