staff line

1. 1.

   any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff

   Broaderline

   Part ofmusical notationstaff

Questions about staff line

What does staff line mean?

staff line means "any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff".

Is staff line a common word?

staff line 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.