SEM'ITONE, noun [semi and tone.] In music, half a tone; an interval of sound, as between mi and fa on the diatonic scale, which is only half the distance of an interval between ut and re, or sol and la. It is the smallest interval admitted in modern.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.