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whole step
noun
Music.
- an interval of two semitones, as A-B or B-C♯; a major second.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of whole step1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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This is a half step where a whole step is needed.
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“This could be a whole step forward for understanding magmatism—and the global composition of the bulk Earth.”
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Others went so far as to demand that President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party as a whole step down.
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Label the half steps and whole steps of the A minor scale.
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A whole tone scale, a scale made only of whole steps, sounds very different from a chromatic scale.
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