HyperDic: pentatone

English > 1 sense of the word pentatone:
NOUNcommunicationpentatone, pentatonic scalea gapped scale with five notes
English > pentatone: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted.
Synonympentatonic scale
Broadergapped scaleA musical scale with fewer than seven notes
Spanishescala pentatónica, pentatone
Catalanescala pentatònica
Adjectivespentatonicrelating to a pentatonic scale

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