atonal | (adjective) characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality | Synonyms: unkeyed |
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atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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atonally | (adverb) without tonality | - |
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atone | (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: repent |
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(verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, expiate |
atonement | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: expiation, propitiation |
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(noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: expiation, satisfaction |
atonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonicity, atony |
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atonic | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: unaccented |
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(adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus | - |
atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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(noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
(noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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baton | (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: wand |
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(noun) a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race | - |
(noun) a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette | - |
(noun) a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority | - |
(noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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(noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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diatonic | (adjective) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals | - |
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(adjective) based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music | - |
eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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hyperbaton | (noun) reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love') | - |
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keratonosis | (noun) any abnormal condition of the outer skin (epidermis) | - |
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keratonosus | (noun) any disease of the cornea | - |
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megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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(noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
melatonin | (noun) hormone secreted by the pineal gland | - |
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pentatone | (noun) a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted | Synonyms: pentatonic scale |
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pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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platonic | (adjective) free from physical desire | - |
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rigatoni | (noun) tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces | - |
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sabaton | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: solleret |
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teraton | (noun) a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. | - |
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