12 : Idioms & Phrases


12-tone music

  • noun a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
    12-tone music; twelve-tone music; twelve-tone system.
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12-tone system

  • noun a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
    12-tone music; twelve-tone music; twelve-tone system.
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atomic number 12

  • noun a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
    Mg; magnesium.
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february 12

  • noun the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered
    Lincoln's Birthday.
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october 12

  • noun a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
    Columbus Day; Discovery Day.
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