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In music, a closely related key (or close key) is one sharing many common tones with an original key, as opposed to a distantly related key (or distant key). In music harmony , there are six of them: four of them share all the pitches except one with a key with which it is being compared, one of them shares all the pitches, and one shares the ...
Abbreviation / Key C0: U+0000 0 000 Null character: NUL U+0001 1 001 Start of Heading: SOH / Ctrl-A U+0002 2 002 Start of Text: STX / Ctrl-B U+0003 3 003 End-of-text character: ETX / Ctrl-C 1: U+0004 4 004 End-of-transmission character: EOT / Ctrl-D 2: U+0005 5 005 Enquiry character: ENQ / Ctrl-E U+0006 6 006 Acknowledge character: ACK / Ctrl-F ...
A common chord, in the theory of harmony, is a chord that is diatonic to more than one key or, in other words, is common to (shared by) two keys. [1] A "common chord" may also be defined simply as a triadic chord [2] (e.g., C–E–G), as one of the most commonly used chords in a key (I–IV–V–vi–ii–iii), [3] more narrowly as a triad in ...
On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
(Slang, chiefly British) A hand with 7–4–1–1 distribution, from the cologne brand 4711. EBL European Bridge League, the sport governing body for contract bridge in Europe, and the sponsoring organisation for many bridge competitions there. EBU English Bridge Union, the official organising body of bridge in England. Echo
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been released from Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Samaritano Barra da Tijuca after spending the night under observation, the hospital said.
Messing up pronunciations can be a source of both annoyance and amusement, but language learning platform Babbel has put together a handy guide to stop you putting your foot in it.
A unit fraction is a common fraction with a numerator of 1 (e.g., 1 / 7 ). Unit fractions can also be expressed using negative exponents, as in 2 −1, which represents 1/2, and 2 −2, which represents 1/(2 2) or 1/4. A dyadic fraction is a common fraction in which the denominator is a power of two, e.g. 1 / 8 = 1 / 2 3 .