half step

See also: half-step

English

Each of the keys on a piano (black or white) is one semitone higher than the one immediately to the left.

Noun

half step (plural half steps)

  1. (music, US) The distance between two tones. In 12-tone equal temperament, its frequency ratio is 21/12, or about 1.059 or 18/17.
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