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thirty-second note

noun

, Music.
  1. a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.


thirty-second note

noun

  1. music a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)demisemiquaver
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of thirty-second note1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

For example: an eighth-note rest dotted equals an eighth note and a sixteenth; and followed by two dots it equals an eighth, a sixteenth and a thirty-second note in time.

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