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| Minor || A diatonic mode, tonality, or (MOS or categorical) interval quality || A matrix made by removing one row and one column of a larger one; a smaller graph made from a larger one | | Minor || A diatonic mode, tonality, or (MOS or categorical) interval quality || A matrix made by removing one row and one column of a larger one; a smaller graph made from a larger one | ||
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| | | Category || A region of similar musical intervals || A collection of mathematical objects of the same "type", related by morphisms aka arrows | ||
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| | | Stack || To add two musical intervals || A 2-sheaf | ||
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| Chain || A sequence (finite or not, closed or not) of consecutive stacked generators, e.g. a chain of fifths || A formal sum of oriented ''k''-simplices or ''k''-cells, certain equivalence classes of which form homology groups | |||
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| Suspension || Non-chord tone on a strong beat resolved downwards on a weak beat || A cylinder <math>X \times [0,1]</math> made from the space ''X'' but with both ends collapsed to points, denoted <math>\Sigma X</math> | |||
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| Mode || Specific rotation of a musical scale || The most frequently occurring number | |||
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| Bridge || A contrasting section in a piece of music that prepares for the return of the original material section || An edge of a graph whose deletion increases the graph's number of connected components | |||
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| Mediant || The third scale degree || Freshman sum | |||
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| Circle || A star polygon that covers all steps in an equal temperament || A round geometric object with no self-intersections | |||
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| Inversion || A variant of a root position chord with pitches transposed by octaves || Taking the multiplicative inverse or reflecting a space about a circle or a sphere | |||
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| | | Neutral || Interval quality between major and minor || An identity element | ||
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