Tone (disambiguation)

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• Tone (linguistics) [r]: Variation in pitch of the human voice, used to distinguish words or other meaningful units of language; for example, in Mandarin má 'hemp' and mǎ 'horse' are different words that vary only in pitch. ^[e]
• Tone (music) [r]: The sound produced by a musical instrument while playing a particular musical note. ^[e]