musical note

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Musical note
In music, the term note has two primary meanings:
  1. A sign used in musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound (♪, ♫);
  2. A pitched sound itself.

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musical note

Noun
1. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
(synonym) note, tone
(hypernym) musical notation
(hyponym) tonic, keynote
(member-holonym) scale, musical scale