augmented fifth

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augmented fifth (plural augmented fifths)

  1. (music) A musical interval made by widening a perfect fifth by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of eight semitones, spans five degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to a minor sixth.
    An augmented fifth on C
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