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double sharp

noun

, Music.
  1. a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  2. a note or tone marked or affected by such a symbol.


double sharp

noun

  1. music
    1. an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by two semitones Usual symbol
    2. a note affected by this accidental
“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

adjective

  1. immediately postpositive denoting a note of a given letter name raised in pitch by two semitones
“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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Example Sentences

Notice that you can't avoid double sharps or double flats by writing the note on a different space or line.

The double sharp was felt by him to be unsatisfactory, and was sacrificed.

Not only all the natural or diatonic notes are regarded as belonging to a key, but also all the chromatics, the sharps and flats, and the double sharps and double flats.

The double sharp is made either thus or *, the first form being at present the more common.

Then there was the double sharp report of firearms, and nothing more.

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