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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A sixty-fourth note.
Wiktionary
- n. a sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.
Examples
“He told us that it was very important to know that the hemidemisemiquaver is the British name for the sixty-fourth note," the letter says.”
“Thus they call a double whole note a breve, a whole note a semibreve, a half note a minim, a quarter note a crotchet, an eighth note a quaver, a sixteenth note a semi-quaver, a thirty-second note a demisemiquaver, and a sixty-fourth note a hemidemisemiquaver, or semidemisemiquaver.”
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage
“Only in the centuries-old organ world could a half-decade seem but a hemidemisemiquaver.”
“I win 840 grains of rice and learn the word hemidemisemiquaver.”
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Eight-syllable English Words
A list of eight-syllable English words, beginning with monoubiquitylation.
Please feel free to add your own octosyllabic discoveries.
monoubiquitylation, monoubiquitination, epidemiological, hematopericardium, psychophysiological, encephalomyelitis, palaeopalynology, encephalomyelitic, actuopalynology, paleopalynology, melissopalynology, melitopalynology and 152 more...
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
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hernesheir In all my years I've yet to see any sheet music with a 32nd, 64th or note of smaller duration actually notated, regardless of its multi-prefixed name.
What is the word for 1/108th, 1/216th or 1/432nd of a quaver, a.k.a. quarter note or crochet, or semiminim?
For giggles, and others to determine: What is the limit at which the human ear/brain cannot distinguish between two or more successive sounds? Jan 4, 2009
smeggo Id est "nota bene". Don't punk my pun. Oct 15, 2008
bilby Preferred form is nota benissimissimissima. Oct 10, 2008
smeggo Nota benissississimo. Oct 10, 2008
reesetee Yes. ;-) Oct 5, 2007
skipvia I like words that are whole sentences all to themselves. Oct 5, 2007
skipvia Ah...the 64th ousand dollar question. Oct 1, 2007
humblegod A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.) Dec 10, 2006