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Meanings of tritone in English

Russian
уменьшенная квинта
Portuguese
tritone
Spanish
diabolus in musica
Catalan
quarta augmentada

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)

уменьшенная квинта
Usage of tritone in English
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In the distance, Alex heard the rising tritone of sirens.
Nemesis Game
2
In music, a tritone describes the interval that splits an octave exactly in half.
Wired
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The autodoc in the wall chimed in a calm tritone.
The Vital Abyss
4
And yet, there was a loud tritone, kicking off your experience with an early Macintosh.
Wired
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A tritone chime announced the pilot, and her voice came over the shuttle's public-address system.
Cibola Burn
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The security alert tritone sounded on the civilian channel, followed by a woman's anxious voice.
Nemesis Game
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The tritone alert came and the public-address system clicked.
Cibola Burn
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David almost ignored his hand terminal's tritone chime.
Gods of Risk
9
A low-pressure Klaxon was sounding, its tritone blat designed to carry through thin and thinning air.
Caliban's War
10
The music keeps swinging across the historically diabolical interval of the tritone, building to a climax of icy splendor.
The new yorker
11
The soft tritone sounded.
Gods of Risk
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But presently some one in the Via Tritone cried out, Helloa!
The Eternal City
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Tritone, augmented fourth, known as "the devil in musick" from early medieval times.
John Winchester’s Journal
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You see, I was delayed by a crowd in the Tritone-thereis always a crowd there.
Sant' Ilario
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Early in December the move to Rome took place, and they found rooms at 28 Via del Tritone.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2)
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So irritating was this combination of notes that tritones were thought in Gregorian times to invoke evil incarnate.
Wired