Musical interval of three adjacent whole tones or six semitones; in a diatonic scale each octave contains 1 tritone (e.g. F–B in C major)
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In the distance, Alex heard the rising tritone of sirens.
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In music, a tritone describes the interval that splits an octave exactly in half.
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The autodoc in the wall chimed in a calm tritone.
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And yet, there was a loud tritone, kicking off your experience with an early Macintosh.
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A tritone chime announced the pilot, and her voice came over the shuttle's public-address system.
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The security alert tritone sounded on the civilian channel, followed by a woman's anxious voice.
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The tritone alert came and the public-address system clicked.
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David almost ignored his hand terminal's tritone chime.
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A low-pressure Klaxon was sounding, its tritone blat designed to carry through thin and thinning air.
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The music keeps swinging across the historically diabolical interval of the tritone, building to a climax of icy splendor.
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The soft tritone sounded.
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But presently some one in the Via Tritone cried out, Helloa!
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Tritone, augmented fourth, known as "the devil in musick" from early medieval times.
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You see, I was delayed by a crowd in the Tritone-thereis always a crowd there.
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Early in December the move to Rome took place, and they found rooms at 28 Via del Tritone.
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So irritating was this combination of notes that tritones were thought in Gregorian times to invoke evil incarnate.
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