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Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Instead of meaning 5:30, the "half five" expression is sometimes used to mean 4:30, or "halfway to five", especially for regions such as the American Midwest and other areas that have been particularly influenced by German culture.
Enumeration with the distributive category originally was meant to specify one each, two each or one by one, two by two, etc., giving how many items of each type are desired or had been found, although distinct word forms for that meaning are now mostly lost.
In music theory, the half-diminished seventh chord (also known as a half-diminished chord or a minor seventh flat five chord) is a seventh chord composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a minor seventh (1, ♭ 3, ♭ 5, ♭ 7). For example, the half-diminished seventh chord built on B, commonly written as ...
For example, if 1 / 2 represents a half-dollar profit, then − 1 / 2 represents a half-dollar loss. Because of the rules of division of signed numbers (which states in part that negative divided by positive is negative), − 1 / 2 , −1 / 2 and 1 / −2 all represent the same fraction – negative one-half.
50: half-century, literally half of a hundred, usually used in cricket scores. 55: double-nickel (informal American) 60: a shock: historical commercial count, described as "three scores". [5] 100: A century, also used in cricket scores and in cycling for 100 miles. A ton, in Commonwealth English, the speed of 100 mph [6] or 100 km/h.
According to a recent corporate filing, the financial conglomerate purchased 5.6 million shares of Constellation Brands for $1.2 billion during the last quarter (ended Dec. 31) and now holds a 3.1 ...
[17] [18] The front row and second row combined are collectively termed the "tight five". [19] In the backs, "half-backs" can be used to describe the scrum-half and fly-half; "inside backs" to describe the scrum-half, fly-half and inside centre; "midfield" for the fly-half and both centres (in New Zealand it refers only to the second five ...