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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Major_third" title="Major third">Major third</a></div>


<p>In <a href="Music" title="Music">music</a>, a <b>ditone</b> (<a href="Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">ditonus</i>, from <a href="Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">δίτονος</span>, "of two tones") is the <a href="Interval_(music)" title="Interval (music)">interval</a> of a <a href="Major_third" title="Major third">major third</a>. The size of a ditone varies according to the sizes of the two tones of which it is compounded. The largest is the Pythagorean ditone, with a ratio of 81:64, also called a comma-redundant major third; the smallest is the interval with a ratio of 100:81, also called a comma-deficient major third.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pythagorean_tuning">Pythagorean tuning</h2></div>
<p>The <b>Pythagorean ditone</b> is the major third in <a href="Pythagorean_tuning" title="Pythagorean tuning">Pythagorean tuning</a>, which has an interval ratio of 81:64,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is 407.82 <a href="Cent_(music)" title="Cent (music)">cents</a>. The Pythagorean ditone is evenly divisible by two <a href="Major_tone" class="mw-redirect" title="Major tone">major tones</a> (9/8 or 203.91 cents) and is wider than a just major third (5/4, 386.31 cents) by a <a href="Syntonic_comma" title="Syntonic comma">syntonic comma</a> (81/80, 21.51 cents). Because it is a comma wider than a "perfect" major third of 5:4, it is called a "comma-redundant" interval.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-2" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{&quot;_&quot;:&quot;mw.Phonos.PhonosButton&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/6\/63\/Pythagorean_major_chord_on_C.mid\/Pythagorean_major_chord_on_C.mid.mp3&quot;,&quot;rel&quot;:[&quot;nofollow&quot;],&quot;framed&quot;:false,&quot;icon&quot;:&quot;volumeUp&quot;,&quot;label&quot;:{&quot;html&quot;:&quot;Play&quot;},&quot;data&quot;:{&quot;ipa&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;lang&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;wikibase&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;file&quot;:&quot;Pythagorean major chord on C.mid&quot;},&quot;classes&quot;:[&quot;noexcerpt&quot;,&quot;ext-phonos-PhonosButton&quot;]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/Pythagorean_major_chord_on_C.mid/Pythagorean_major_chord_on_C.mid.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label">Play</span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable">ⓘ</sup></span>
</p><p>"The major third that appears commonly in the [Pythagorean] system (C–E, D–F<span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode;"><span class="music-sharp">♯</span></span>, etc.) is more properly known as the Pythagorean ditone and consists of two major and two minor semitones (2M+2m). This is the interval that is extremely sharp, at 408c (the <i>pure</i> major third is only 386c)."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>It may also be thought of as four justly tuned <a href="Perfect_fifth" title="Perfect fifth">fifths</a> minus two <a href="Octave" title="Octave">octaves</a>.
</p><p>The <a href="Prime_factor" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime factor">prime factorization</a> of the 81:64 ditone is 3^4/2^6 (or 3/1 * 3/1 * 3/1 * 3/1 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Just_intonation">Just intonation</h2></div>
<p>In <a href="Didymus_the_Musician" title="Didymus the Musician">Didymus</a>'s diatonic and <a href="Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a>'s <a href="Ptolemy's_intense_diatonic_scale" title="Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale">syntonic</a> tunings, the ditone is a just major third with a ratio of 5:4, made up of two unequal tones—a <a href="Major_second#Major_and_minor_tones" title="Major second">major and a minor tone</a> of 9:8 and 10:9, respectively. The difference between the two systems is that Didymus places the minor tone below the major, whereas Ptolemy does the opposite.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Meantone_temperament">Meantone temperament</h2></div>
<p>In <a href="Meantone_temperament" title="Meantone temperament">meantone temperaments</a>, the major tone and minor tone are replaced by a "mean tone" which is somewhere in between the two. Two of these tones make a ditone or major third. This major third is exactly the just (5:4) major third in quarter-comma meantone. This is the source of the name: the note exactly halfway between the bounding tones of the major third is called the "<a href="Mean" title="Mean">mean</a> tone".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equal_temperament">Equal temperament</h2></div>
<p>Modern writers occasionally use the word "ditone" to describe the interval of a major third in <a href="Equal_temperament" title="Equal temperament">equal temperament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, "In modern acoustics, the equal-tempered semitone has 100 cents, the tone 200 cents, the ditone or major third 400 cents, the perfect fourth 500 cents, and so on. …”<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Tritone" title="Tritone">Tritone</a></li>
<li><a href="Whole_tone" class="mw-redirect" title="Whole tone">Tone</a></li>
<li><a href="Pythagorean_interval" title="Pythagorean interval">Pythagorean interval</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Abraham Rees, "Ditone, Ditonum", in <i>The Cyclopædia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. In Thirty-Nine Volumes</i>, vol. 12 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, &amp; Brown, 1819) [not paginated].</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mimi Waitzman, "Meantone Temperament in Theory and Practice", <i>In Theory Only</i> 5, no. 4 (May 1981): 3–15. Citation on 4.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anonymous, "Ditonus", <i>The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians</i>, second edition, edited by <a href="Stanley_Sadie" title="Stanley Sadie">Stanley Sadie</a> and <a href="John_Tyrrell_(professor_of_music)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tyrrell (professor of music)">John Tyrrell</a> (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).</span>
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</style><div id="Intervals258" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Interval_(music)" title="Interval (music)">Intervals</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Equal_temperament" title="Equal temperament">Twelve-<br>semitone</a><br>(post-Bach<br>Western)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="(Numbers_in_bracketsare_the_number_ofsemitones_in_theinterval.)86" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i>(Numbers in brackets<br>are the number of<br><a href="Semitone" title="Semitone">semitones</a> in the<br>interval.)</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Perfect</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Unison" title="Unison">unison</a> (0)</li>
<li><a href="Perfect_fourth" title="Perfect fourth">fourth</a> (5)</li>
<li><a href="Perfect_fifth" title="Perfect fifth">fifth</a> (7)</li>
<li><a href="Octave" title="Octave">octave</a> (12)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Major_and_minor#Intervals_and_chords" title="Major and minor">Major</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Major_second" title="Major second">second</a> (2)</li>
<li><a href="Major_third" title="Major third">third</a> (4)</li>
<li><a href="Major_sixth" title="Major sixth">sixth</a> (9)</li>
<li><a href="Major_seventh" title="Major seventh">seventh</a> (11)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Major_and_minor#Intervals_and_chords" title="Major and minor">Minor</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Minor_second" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor second">second</a> (1)</li>
<li><a href="Minor_third" title="Minor third">third</a> (3)</li>
<li><a href="Minor_sixth" title="Minor sixth">sixth</a> (8)</li>
<li><a href="Minor_seventh" title="Minor seventh">seventh</a> (10)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Augmentation_(music)#Augmentation_of_intervals" title="Augmentation (music)">Augmented</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Augmented_unison" title="Augmented unison">unison</a> (1)</li>
<li><a href="Augmented_second" title="Augmented second">second</a> (3)</li>
<li><a href="Augmented_third" title="Augmented third">third</a> (5)</li>
<li><a href="Tritone" title="Tritone">fourth</a> (6)</li>
<li><a href="Augmented_fifth" title="Augmented fifth">fifth</a> (8)</li>
<li><a href="Augmented_sixth" title="Augmented sixth">sixth</a> (10)</li>
<li><a href="Augmented_seventh" title="Augmented seventh">seventh</a> (12)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Diminution#Diminution_of_intervals" title="Diminution">Diminished</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Diminished_second" title="Diminished second">second</a> (0)</li>
<li><a href="Diminished_third" title="Diminished third">third</a> (2)</li>
<li><a href="Diminished_fourth" title="Diminished fourth">fourth</a> (4)</li>
<li><a href="Tritone" title="Tritone">fifth</a> (6)</li>
<li><a href="Diminished_sixth" title="Diminished sixth">sixth</a> (7)</li>
<li><a href="Diminished_seventh" title="Diminished seventh">seventh</a> (9)</li>
<li><a href="Diminished_octave" title="Diminished octave">octave</a> (11)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Interval_(music)#Simple_and_compound" title="Interval (music)">Compound</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Ninth" title="Ninth">ninth</a> (13 or 14)</li>
<li><a href="Third_(chord)" title="Third (chord)">tenth</a> (15 or 16)</li>
<li><a href="Eleventh" title="Eleventh">eleventh</a> (17 or 18)</li>
<li><a href="Fifth_(chord)" title="Fifth (chord)">twelfth</a> (18 or 19)</li>
<li><a href="Thirteenth" title="Thirteenth">thirteenth</a> (20 or 21)</li>
<li><a href="Seventh_(chord)" title="Seventh (chord)">fourteenth</a> (22 or 23)</li>
<li><a href="Fifteenth" title="Fifteenth">fifteenth</a> (24)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other<br>tuning<br>systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><b><a href="24-tone_equal_temperament" class="mw-redirect" title="24-tone equal temperament">24-tone equal temperament</a></b><br><i>(Numbers in brackets refer<br>to fractional semitones.)</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Neutral57" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5em;font-weight:normal;"><div><br><a href="Neutral_interval" title="Neutral interval">Neutral</a><br><br></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Quarter_tone" title="Quarter tone">quarter tone</a> (<span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Neutral_interval" title="Neutral interval">second</a> (<span class="frac">1<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Neutral_third" title="Neutral third">third</a> (<span class="frac">3<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Major_fourth_and_minor_fifth" title="Major fourth and minor fifth">major fourth</a> (<span class="frac">5<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Major_fourth_and_minor_fifth" title="Major fourth and minor fifth">minor fifth</a> (<span class="frac">6<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Neutral_sixth" title="Neutral sixth">sixth</a> (<span class="frac">8<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li>
<li><a href="Neutral_interval" title="Neutral interval">seventh</a> (<span class="frac">10<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><b><a href="Just_intonation" title="Just intonation">Just intonations</a></b><br><i>(Numbers in brackets<br>refer to pitch ratios.)</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="7-limit_tuning" title="7-limit tuning">7-limit</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Septimal_quarter_tone" title="Septimal quarter tone">septimal quarter tone</a> (36:35)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_third_tone" title="Septimal third tone">septimal third tone</a> (28:27)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_chromatic_semitone" title="Septimal chromatic semitone">septimal chromatic semitone</a> (21:20)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_diatonic_semitone" title="Septimal diatonic semitone">septimal diatonic semitone</a> (15:14)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_whole_tone" title="Septimal whole tone">supermajor second</a> (8:7)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_minor_third" title="Septimal minor third">subminor third</a> (7:6)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_major_third" title="Septimal major third">supermajor third</a> (9:7)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_tritone" title="Septimal tritone">subminor fifth</a> (7:5)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_tritone" title="Septimal tritone">supermajor fourth</a> (10:7)</li>
<li><a href="Harmonic_seventh" title="Harmonic seventh">subminor seventh</a> (7:4)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Limit_(music)" title="Limit (music)">Higher-limit</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Minor_diatonic_semitone" title="Minor diatonic semitone">minor diatonic semitone</a> (17-limit)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other<br>intervals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><b>Groups</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Microtonal_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Microtonal music">Microtone</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_intervals_in_5-limit_just_intonation" title="List of intervals in 5-limit just intonation">5-limit</a></li>
<li><a href="Comma_(music)" title="Comma (music)">Comma</a></li>
<li><a href="Pseudo-octave" title="Pseudo-octave">Pseudo-octave</a></li>
<li><a href="Pythagorean_interval" title="Pythagorean interval">Pythagorean interval</a></li>
<li><a href="Subminor_and_supermajor" title="Subminor and supermajor">Subminor and supermajor</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><i><b>Semitones</b></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Pythagorean_limma" class="mw-redirect" title="Pythagorean limma">Pythagorean limma</a></li>
<li><a href="Pythagorean_apotome" class="mw-redirect" title="Pythagorean apotome">Pythagorean apotome</a></li>
<li><a href="Major_limma" title="Major limma">Major limma</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><i><b>Quarter tones</b></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Quarter_tone" title="Quarter tone">Quarter tone</a></li>
<li><a href="Septimal_quarter_tone" title="Septimal quarter tone">Septimal quarter tone</a></li>
<li><a href="Undecimal_quarter_tone" class="mw-redirect" title="Undecimal quarter tone">Undecimal quarter tone</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><b><a href="Comma_(music)" title="Comma (music)">Commas</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Pythagorean_comma" title="Pythagorean comma">Pythagorean comma</a> (23.5 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Syntonic_comma" title="Syntonic comma">Syntonic comma</a> (21.5 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Holdrian_comma" class="mw-redirect" title="Holdrian comma">Holdrian comma</a> (22.6 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_comma" title="Septimal comma">Septimal comma</a> (27.3 cents)</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Diesis" title="Diesis">Lesser diesis</a> (41.1 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Diesis" title="Diesis">Greater diesis</a> (62.6 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_diesis" title="Septimal diesis">Septimal diesis</a> (35.7 cents)</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Diaschisma" title="Diaschisma">Diaschisma</a> (19.5 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Semicomma" title="Semicomma">Semicomma</a> (10.1 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_semicomma" title="Septimal semicomma">Septimal semicomma</a> (13.8 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Kleisma" title="Kleisma">Kleisma</a> (8.1 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Septimal_kleisma" title="Septimal kleisma">Septimal kleisma</a> (7.7 cents)</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Schisma" title="Schisma">Schisma</a> (1.95 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Breedsma" title="Breedsma">Breedsma</a> (0.72 cents)</li>
<li><a href="Ragisma" title="Ragisma">Ragisma</a> (0.4 cents)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><b>Measurement</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cent_(music)" title="Cent (music)">Cent</a></li>
<li><a href="Cent_(music)#Centitones" title="Cent (music)">Centitone</a></li>
<li><a href="Millioctave" title="Millioctave">Millioctave</a></li>
<li><a href="Savart" title="Savart">Savart</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;"><b>Others</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Wolf_interval" title="Wolf interval">Wolf</a></li>

<li><a href="Semiditone" class="mw-redirect" title="Semiditone">Semiditone</a></li>
<li><a href="George_Secor#Secor" title="George Secor">Secor</a></li>
<li><a href="Incomposite_interval" title="Incomposite interval">Incomposite interval</a></li></ul>
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