Tone
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The word tone is used in several different fields with different meanings.Template:Wiktionary
In music, tone may be synonymous with:
- Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of a note or sound. See also pure tone.
- Note, the name of a pitch, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its note value.
- Whole tone. Cf. semitone
- Timbre
In geography:
- River Tone - a river in England
- Tone River - a river in the Kanto region of Japan
- Tone, Ibaraki, a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
- Tone District, Gunma, a district in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
In other fields:
- Setting tone, a writer's attitude to their subject matter or audience; the distinctive mood created by this.
- Tone (linguistics) refers to discrete pitches or pitch contours used by certain languages in a meaningful manner
- Muscle tone, the firmness or strength of a tissue or organ.
- Tone, a World War II cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy named after the river
- Tones, a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
- Tone, a 1970s band led by David Sancious
- Dual-tone multi-frequency or tone dialing (as opposed to pulse dialing)